Wilderness Study Area · usa
Alvord Desert
- Area
- 958 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
287 distinct species · 820 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Alvord Desert : 23 espèces reliées par 127 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 22 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology3 basins · 0 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
13,4km
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
5 815km²
Discharge in basins
0,6m³/s
Mean precip.
260mm/an
Mean T°
7,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,77
Max snow
8%
Mean runoff
62mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 478m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Duck Creekord 1len here5.44 km89%total6 km
- Willow Creekord 3len here2.47 km4%total61 km
- Twelvemile Creekord 2len here1.92 km6%total34 km
- Big Alvord Creekord 1len here1.38 km14%total10 km
- Indian Creekord 1len here0.97 km36%total3 km
- Whitehorse Creekord 3len here0.61 km1%total63 km
- Pike Creekord 1len here0.39 km11%total4 km
- Dry Creekord 2len here0.24 km2%total12 km
- Mosquito Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal19 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 42.57501, -118.11942
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.