World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · unk
Białowieża Forest
- Area
- 1 394 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1979
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1979
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
6 458 distinct species · 354 826 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Białowieża Forest : 26 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 3 lakes · 32 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
224,8km
Lake surface here
2,25km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 600km²
Discharge in basins
8,0m³/s
Mean precip.
584mm/an
Mean T°
7,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,19
Max snow
29%
Mean runoff
164mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
164m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Калонкаsub-area1 177,3 km²overlap486.22 km²35%
- Bassin de Левая Ляснаяsub-area2 599,7 km²overlap469.02 km²34%
- Bassin de Narewkasub-area643,3 km²overlap399.19 km²29%
- Bassin de Narewsub-area767,8 km²overlap28.42 km²2%
- Bassin de Ясельдаsub-area1 398,6 km²overlap7.74 km²1%
- Bassin de Orlankasub-area514,5 km²overlap3.83 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (32, ord ≥ 4)
- Narewkaord 4len here29.06 km45%total64 km
- Leśna Prawaord 3len here21.44 km58%total37 km
- Нараўord 3len here15.98 km82%total20 km
- Рудаўкаord 3len here15.11 km72%total21 km
- Саломенкаord 1len here14.78 km100%total15 km
- Перавалокаord 2len here13.94 km100%total14 km
- Друнёўкаord 2len here10.61 km79%total13 km
- Вішняord 2len here9.09 km34%total26 km
- Мядзянкаord 1len here9.01 km50%total18 km
- Orłówkaord 3len here8.82 km100%total9 km
- Przedzielnaord 3len here7.73 km100%total8 km
- Нараўкаord 3len here7.51 km92%total8 km
20 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Narew / Нараўord 3len here7.42 km82%total9 km
- Bobrówkaord 4len here5.25 km9%total56 km
- Лясная Праваяord 4len here5.18 km20%total26 km
- Пабойкаord 1len here4.95 km100%total5 km
- Ломаўкаord 1len here4.43 km66%total7 km
- Łutowniaord 2len here4.22 km67%total6 km
- Podcerkówkaord 1len here4.16 km100%total4 km
- Немяржанкаord 3len here3.90 km58%total7 km
- Пчолкаord 2len here3.62 km57%total6 km
- Кулёўкаord 1len here3.10 km100%total3 km
- Perebelord 1len here3.05 km100%total3 km
- Chwiszczejord 2len here2.92 km28%total11 km
- Цісаўкаord 2len here2.91 km32%total9 km
- Белаяord 4len here2.70 km21%total13 km
- Dubitkaord 1len here2.18 km93%total2 km
- Krynicaord 1len here1.00 km36%total3 km
- Waliczówkaord 1len here0.41 km17%total2 km
- Левая Ляснаяord 3len here0.24 km0%total64 km
- Тушамлянкаord 1len here0.07 km1%total8 km
- Калонкаord 2len here≈ tangenttotal34 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
- 52.71691, 23.91140
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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.