| |
The Aspen Parkland Ecoregion | |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
 | A large region in east-central Alberta extending from the Foothills to the west, north of Edmonton and across to the provincial border with Saskatchewan. It covers over five and a half million hectares or about 9% of the total area in the province. It is characterized by a transitional grassland ecoclimate, with short, warm summers (mean summer temperature 15 degrees Celsius), continuous snow cover throughout winter and moderate annual precipitation (400 - 500 mm). Parent material is classed as Cretaceous shale, with significant areas of lacustrine and fluvioglacial deposits. Fertile loamy Black Chernozemic soils are extensive with Gleysolic soils present in poorly drained, lower slope positions. Small lakes, ponds and sloughs are found throughout this area.
Agricultural Ecoregion in Alberta. |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Other Documents in the Series |
|
| |
The Peace Lowland Ecoregion
The Boreal Transition Ecoregion
The Aspen Parkland Ecoregion - Current Document
The Moist Mixed Grassland Ecoregion
The Fescue Grassland Ecoregion
The Mixed Grassland Ecoregion
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
For more information about the content of this document, contact David Spiess.
This document is maintained by Laura Thygesen.
This information published to the web on August 1, 2001.
Last Reviewed/Revised on June 19, 2017.
|
|