Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · 2024
7 299 km²
Commune · CHN
China
Species observed
870
Observations
2 546
Area
75 093,7km²
Sample of 31 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).
Tissu écologique de Alxa Right : 22 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
870 distinct species · 2 546 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Mean T°
8,8°C
Annual rain
99mm
Warmest m°
30,6°C
Coldest m°
-14,6°C
Elevation: 1 363 m on average (min 838 m, max 3 293 m)
CHELSA BIO 1-19 v2.1 · ETOPO DEM 60s · Köppen-Geiger 1991-2020 (Beck et al. 2018)
pH H₂O
8,2
Org. C
7,7g/kg
Clay
22,4%
Sand
38,2%
Silt
39,4%
Average over 0-30 cm. Per-depth details in expert panel.
Dominant lithology: smGLiMaggregated to Alxa
SoilGrids 250m (ISRIC, 2017) · GLiM v1.0 (Hartmann & Moosdorf 2012)
Copernicus Global Land Cover 100m (Buchhorn et al. 2020)
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Lake surface here
19,44km²
Basins crossed
102
Max drainage
54 610km²
Discharge in basins
20,1m³/s
Mean precip.
84mm/an
Mean T°
7,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,92
Max snow
10%
Mean runoff
2mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 357m
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Pop. density
0hab/km²
Night light
0,0nW
Built-up
0,6%
Pesticides
2,2kg/km²
GHSL POP/Built 2020 · VIIRS lumière nocturne · PEST-CHEMGRIDS 2020 (Maggi et al.)
World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · 2024
7 299 km²
WDPA (World Database on Protected Areas) — UNEP-WCMC & IUCN