Nature Refuge · aus
Castlevale
- Area
- 1 998 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 2010
Overview
- Designation
- Nature Refuge
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 2010
- Managing authority
- AU-QLD_DES
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
236 distinct species · 397 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Castlevale : 23 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
299,7km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 196km²
Discharge in basins
1,1m³/s
Mean precip.
592mm/an
Mean T°
20,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,66
Mean runoff
19mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
482m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Claude Riversub-area2 195,4 km²overlap1062.81 km²53%
- Bassin de Birkhead Creeksub-area1 268,5 km²overlap611.88 km²31%
- Bassin de Windeyer Creeksub-area939,7 km²overlap293.06 km²15%
- Bassin de Tralee Creeksub-area398,6 km²overlap25.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Sandy Creeksub-area508,3 km²overlap2.29 km²0%
- Bassin de Back Creeksub-area474,1 km²overlap1.86 km²0%
- Bassin de Alpha Creeksub-area552,5 km²overlap0.22 km²0%
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Claude Riverord 4len here73.02 km56%total131 km
- Windeyer Creekord 3len here47.28 km44%total108 km
- Birkhead Creekord 4len here37.13 km39%total95 km
- Juanita Creekord 2len here33.52 km82%total41 km
- Sandy Creekord 4len here27.61 km6%total461 km
- Hospital Gullyord 3len here21.29 km77%total28 km
- Twelve Mile Creekord 3len here16.92 km45%total38 km
- Expedition Creekord 3len here11.17 km13%total86 km
- Chinaman Creekord 2len here10.28 km34%total31 km
- Cattle Creekord 4len here8.82 km5%total170 km
- Brumby Creekord 1len here5.07 km38%total13 km
- Splitters Creekord 3len here3.88 km2%total156 km
2 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
- -24.46058, 146.61813
- Open in maps
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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.