Wilderness Area · usa
Black Rock Desert
- Area
- 1 274 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
0 - Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
134 distinct species · 300 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Black Rock Desert : 26 espèces reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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 · 1 lakes · 2 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
140,3km
Lake surface here
0,64km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
13 549km²
Discharge in basins
60,3m³/s
Mean precip.
222mm/an
Mean T°
9,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,81
Max snow
9%
Mean runoff
66mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 421m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area2 431,5 km²overlap437.40 km²34%
- Bassin de Leonard Creeksub-area596,4 km²overlap242.75 km²19%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area541,7 km²overlap165.64 km²13%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area116,7 km²overlap116.76 km²9%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area228,8 km²overlap116.21 km²9%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area187,1 km²overlap108.87 km²9%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area178,3 km²overlap74.75 km²6%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area11,2 km²overlap11.17 km²1%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area446,4 km²overlap0.87 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (2, 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
- 41.17323, -118.79147
- 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.