Wilderness Area · can
Cloud Lake Wilderness Area
- Area
- 49 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2015
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2015
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
51 distinct species · 62 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Cloud Lake Wilderness Area : 24 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology2 basins · 9 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
15,2km
Lake surface here
0,27km²
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 606km²
Discharge in basins
1,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 285mm/an
Mean T°
6,2°C
Moisture idx
0,39
Max snow
33%
Mean runoff
884mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
146m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (9, top by area)
- Frog Lakearea2,4 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Cloud Lakearea2,2 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Shannon Lakearea1,2 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 1042998area0,4 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1043500area0,4 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 1042474area0,4 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 1042967area0,4 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1042985area0,3 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1042938area0,1 km²avg depth2.7 m
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Nictaux Riverord 3len here6.49 km72%total9 km
- Wheelock Meadows Brookord 1len here3.51 km71%total5 km
- LaHave Riverord 5len here3.34 km3%total110 km
- Oakes Brookord 1len here1.37 km20%total7 km
- East Branch Brookord 3len here0.41 km12%total4 km
- Little Riverord 1len here0.10 km3%total4 km
- Spry Riverord 3len here≈ tangenttotal4 km
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
- 44.80707, -64.99120
- 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.