Wilderness Area · usa
Ansel Adams
- Area
- 937 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1964
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1964
- Managing authority
- National Park Service ; Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 343 distinct species · 51 396 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Ansel Adams : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 5 lakes · 33 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
205,2km
Lake surface here
3,49km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 744km²
Discharge in basins
14,2m³/s
Mean precip.
630mm/an
Mean T°
4,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,26
Max snow
49%
Mean runoff
323mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 539m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Middle Fork San Joaquin Riversub-area847,8 km²overlap518.80 km²55%
- Bassin de South Fork San Joaquin Riversub-area260,9 km²overlap167.28 km²18%
- Bassin de Rush Creeksub-area2 041 km²overlap154.26 km²16%
- Bassin de San Joaquin Riversub-area701,8 km²overlap43.72 km²5%
- Bassin de Mono Creeksub-area256,4 km²overlap38.61 km²4%
- Bassin de South Fork San Joaquin Riversub-area677,5 km²overlap6.11 km²1%
- Bassin de South Fork Merced Riversub-area627,8 km²overlap4.52 km²0%
- Bassin de Merced Riversub-area1 080 km²overlap1.92 km²0%
- Bassin de Tuolumne Riversub-area1 284,6 km²overlap1.90 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (5, top by area)
Rivers / streams (33, ord ≥ 4)
- San Joaquin Riverord 6len here29.28 km5%total607 km
- South Fork San Joaquin Riverord 4len here28.49 km53%total54 km
- Middle Fork San Joaquin Riverord 3len here26.68 km77%total35 km
- North Fork San Joaquin Riverord 2len here10.89 km100%total11 km
- Cora Creekord 1len here10.20 km100%total10 km
- Mono Creekord 4len here9.29 km27%total35 km
- Four Forks Creekord 2len here7.54 km100%total8 km
- Cold Creekord 2len here6.98 km26%total27 km
- Crest Creekord 1len here6.46 km72%total9 km
- Rube Creekord 2len here5.98 km100%total6 km
- Rock Creekord 5len here5.34 km3%total190 km
- West Fork Granite Creekord 2len here5.25 km29%total18 km
21 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Minaret Creekord 1len here4.87 km100%total5 km
- King Creekord 1len here4.74 km100%total5 km
- Shadow Creekord 1len here4.31 km100%total4 km
- Stairway Creekord 3len here3.93 km86%total5 km
- Rush Creekord 3len here3.79 km11%total34 km
- Madera Creekord 1len here3.63 km92%total4 km
- Long Creekord 1len here3.54 km100%total4 km
- Parker Creekord 1len here3.09 km27%total11 km
- Warm Creekord 4len here3.03 km100%total3 km
- Iron Creekord 1len here2.76 km100%total3 km
- Cargyle Creekord 1len here2.54 km100%total3 km
- Granite Creekord 2len here2.11 km17%total13 km
- Camp Sixty One Creekord 1len here2.07 km100%total2 km
- Crater Creekord 1len here2.02 km46%total4 km
- Slide Creekord 2len here1.64 km54%total3 km
- Rattlesnake Creekord 5len here1.40 km3%total54 km
- Hoffman Creekord 1len here1.05 km41%total3 km
- Post Creekord 2len here0.89 km3%total26 km
- Dike Creekord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
- Farrington Siphonord 1len here0.41 km4%total10 km
- Miller Creekord 2len here0.32 km2%total14 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
- 37.62715, -119.21951
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.