National Preserve · usa
Big Thicket
- Area
- 440 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
Overview
- Designation
- National Preserve
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
0 - Managing authority
- National Park Service ; Non-Governmental Organization
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
893 distinct species · 9 106 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Thicket : 32 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, 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).
Hydrology16 basins · 1 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
211,6km
Lake surface here
0,00km²
Basins crossed
16
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
45 824km²
Discharge in basins
81,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 359mm/an
Mean T°
19,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,07
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
481mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
48m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Pine Island Bayousub-area1 836,7 km²overlap108.77 km²25%
- Bassin de Neches Riversub-area1 645,6 km²overlap92.43 km²21%
- Bassin de Big Sandy Creeksub-area703,8 km²overlap85.49 km²19%
- Bassin de Turkey Creeksub-area454,3 km²overlap26.63 km²6%
- Bassin de Neches Riversub-area499,9 km²overlap26.12 km²6%
- Bassin de Neches Riversub-area137,8 km²overlap21.19 km²5%
- Bassin de Beech Creeksub-area515,8 km²overlap20.21 km²5%
- Bassin de Menard Creeksub-area441,9 km²overlap16.48 km²4%
- Bassin de Village Creeksub-area433,2 km²overlap15.51 km²4%
7 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Village Creeksub-area151,8 km²overlap12.24 km²3%
- Bassin de Turkey Creeksub-area27,6 km²overlap4.55 km²1%
- Bassin de Village Creeksub-area130,5 km²overlap4.19 km²1%
- Bassin de Hickory Creeksub-area6,8 km²overlap3.44 km²1%
- Bassin de Hickory Creeksub-area383,3 km²overlap2.32 km²1%
- Bassin de Trinity Riversub-area1 502,6 km²overlap0.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Trinity Riversub-area156,2 km²overlap0.09 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- Neches Riverord 6len here88.06 km11%total815 km
- Big Sandy Creekord 3len here36.34 km30%total120 km
- Turkey Creekord 4len here22.20 km47%total48 km
- Little Pine Island Bayouord 4len here20.77 km44%total48 km
- Menard Creekord 3len here20.48 km47%total44 km
- Village Creekord 4len here10.44 km20%total53 km
- Pine Island Bayouord 5len here6.33 km5%total131 km
- Black Creekord 5len here2.86 km31%total9 km
- Hickory Creekord 4len here2.04 km12%total17 km
- Boggy Creekord 5len here0.99 km6%total15 km
- Bunns Canalord 6len here0.79 km16%total5 km
- Kimball Creekord 2len here0.21 km2%total9 km
3 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
- 30.24757, -94.45766
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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.