Marine Protected Area · usa
Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve
- Area
- 279 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1974
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1974
- Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation ; County Land ; City Land
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
5 835 distinct species · 458 816 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.2%, 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).
Hydrology6 basins · 3 lakes · 4 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
3,2km
Lake surface here
18,68km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
7 573km²
Discharge in basins
1,4m³/s
Mean precip.
1 382mm/an
Mean T°
24,1°C
Moisture idx
0,04
Mean runoff
510mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
7m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Snake Creek Canalsub-area464,2 km²overlap38.82 km²14%
- Bassin de Cutler Drain Canalsub-area258,8 km²overlap17.67 km²6%
- Basin #44400sub-area513,2 km²overlap6.70 km²2%
- Basin #44380sub-area51,3 km²overlap5.61 km²2%
- Bassin de Miami Riversub-area55,2 km²overlap0.75 km²0%
- Bassin de Model Land Canalsub-area436,7 km²overlap0.09 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (4, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 25.73207, -80.19867
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.