Heritage River · AUS
Big River
- Area
- 20 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Heritage River
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- AU-VIC_DEECA
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
379 distinct species · 1 654 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 River : 38 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 55 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.7%, 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).
Hydrology1 basins · 0 lakes · 13 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
38,2km
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 485km²
Discharge in basins
0,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 460mm/an
Mean T°
10,4°C
Moisture idx
0,26
Max snow
9%
Mean runoff
395mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
785m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (13, ord ≥ 4)
- Big Riverord 4len here25.20 km31%total80 km
- Railway Creekord 3len here7.36 km95%total8 km
- Wattle Creekord 4len here3.32 km8%total39 km
- Taponga Riverord 3len here0.64 km6%total11 km
- Dudley Creekord 2len here0.57 km9%total7 km
- Big Bend Creekord 1len here0.30 km16%total2 km
- Arnold Creekord 2len here0.28 km3%total10 km
- Twenty Five Mile Creekord 1len here0.17 km4%total4 km
- Deer Hound Creekord 1len here0.17 km4%total4 km
- Monument Creekord 2len here0.14 km1%total11 km
- Gum Top Creekord 1len here0.09 km13%total1 km
- Chinaman Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal36 km
1 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- -37.45587, 146.09709
- 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.