Marine Protected Area · usa
Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve
- Area
- 2 755 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1985
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1985
- Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 122 distinct species · 49 437 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 2 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
40,1km
Lake surface here
0,20km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
26 559km²
Discharge in basins
2,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 240mm/an
Mean T°
20,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,19
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
382mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
16m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Waccasassa Riversub-area2 181,9 km²overlap61.40 km²2%
- Bassin de California Creeksub-area872,1 km²overlap40.40 km²1%
- Bassin de Econfina Riversub-area2 635 km²overlap21.64 km²1%
- Bassin de Hosford Branchsub-area285,8 km²overlap13.86 km²1%
- Bassin de Suwannee Riversub-area1 736,4 km²overlap12.65 km²0%
- Bassin de Steinhatchee Riversub-area1 109,5 km²overlap1.80 km²0%
- Bassin de Lost Creeksub-area993,5 km²overlap1.60 km²0%
- Bassin de Saint Marks Riversub-area2 268,3 km²overlap1.40 km²0%
- Bassin de Aucilla Riversub-area2 505,9 km²overlap0.72 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Suwannee Riverord 6len here28.96 km4%total739 km
- Steinhatchee Riverord 3len here3.59 km3%total104 km
- Saint Marks Riverord 4len here1.92 km3%total62 km
- Wakulla Riverord 3len here1.86 km7%total28 km
- Aucilla Riverord 5len here1.68 km1%total219 km
- Waccasassa Riverord 4len here1.08 km2%total71 km
- Cow Creekord 3len here0.58 km7%total8 km
- Econfina Riverord 3len here0.34 km0%total112 km
- Clearwater Creekord 2len here0.06 km1%total7 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
- 30.02530, -84.05021
- Open in maps
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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.