Wilderness Area · can
Blue Mountain - Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area
- Area
- 13 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 2009
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 2009
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 233 distinct species · 12 787 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Blue Mountain - Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area : 36 espèces reliées par 130 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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 · 5 lakes · 2 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
7,9km
Lake surface here
0,47km²
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
2 983km²
Discharge in basins
0,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 396mm/an
Mean T°
6,2°C
Moisture idx
0,46
Max snow
31%
Mean runoff
948mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
78m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (5, 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
- 44.67767, -63.73549
- 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.