Wilderness Area · can
Canso Coastal Barrens Wilderness Area
- Area
- 80 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1998
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1998
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
44 distinct species · 1 706 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Canso Coastal Barrens Wilderness Area : 19 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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 · 19 lakes · 4 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
4,2km
Lake surface here
3,17km²
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
3 271km²
Discharge in basins
0,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 431mm/an
Mean T°
5,8°C
Moisture idx
0,50
Max snow
32%
Mean runoff
1 002mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
87m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (19, top by area)
- Lac 1038970area0,9 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 1038852area0,4 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1038519area0,3 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1038803area0,3 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1039482area0,3 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1038616area0,3 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1038581area0,3 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 1039416area0,2 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 1039502area0,2 km²avg depth2.9 m
10 more lakes
- Lac 1039009area0,2 km²avg depth4.0 m
- Lac 1039056area0,2 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1039253area0,1 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 1039328area0,1 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 1038919area0,1 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1039357area0,1 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1038957area0,1 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1038544area0,1 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1039503area0,1 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 1038863area0,1 km²avg depth2.5 m
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
- 45.27222, -61.07268
- 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.