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Codes for New Brunswick: Sugar maple — Ash zone

Sugar maple — Hemlock - Pine zone Red spruce — Hemlock — Pine zone:

- Maritime Lowlands Ecoregion

Clyde River - Halifax Ecoregion

Spruce — Fir zone (Atlantic coast)

Sugar maple - Yellow birch - Fir zone Red spruce - Hemlock - Pine zone

Spruce — Fir coast zone

m Fir — Pine — Birch zone ‘

Aller Wynn (1981)

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Codes for Nova Scotia and _ Prince Edward Island I E Spruce — Fir zone (Fundy coast)

Sugar maple - Hemlock — Pine zone a Fir — Pine — Birch zone

0 50 Sugar maple-Yellow birch—Hr zone Spruce Taiga zone l—i__l Miles Alter Clark (1988) Figure 6. The distribution of Loucks' Forest Zones over the whole of the Maritime provinces.

The above map has been produced by combining and modifying two different re—drawings of Louck’s map: the New Brunswick part comes from Wynn (1981 ); Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island from Clark (1968). Note that the hatching differs for the two parts.