Marine Protected Area · usa
Croatan Game Land
- Area
- 653 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 1971
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 1971
- Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation ; Other or Unknown State Land ; Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 730 distinct species · 78 657 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Croatan Game Land : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 7 lakes · 16 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
45,6km
Lake surface here
20,93km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 504km²
Discharge in basins
7,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 378mm/an
Mean T°
16,9°C
Moisture idx
0,09
Max snow
3%
Mean runoff
464mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
9m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de White Oak Riversub-area953,9 km²overlap398.89 km²61%
- Bassin de Adams Creek Canalsub-area1 504,3 km²overlap88.00 km²13%
- Bassin de Northwest Prong Newport Riversub-area191,8 km²overlap75.44 km²12%
- Bassin de East Prong Broad Creeksub-area213,2 km²overlap50.58 km²8%
- Bassin de Trent Riversub-area1 205,8 km²overlap40.32 km²6%
Lakes (7, top by area)
Rivers / streams (16, ord ≥ 4)
- Hunters Creekord 4len here15.05 km60%total25 km
- Northwest Prong Newport Riverord 2len here7.69 km49%total16 km
- East Prong Broad Creekord 1len here5.55 km77%total7 km
- Deep Creekord 3len here3.30 km22%total15 km
- White Oak Riverord 3len here3.26 km11%total30 km
- Mill Creekord 2len here2.14 km28%total8 km
- Black Branchord 1len here1.73 km57%total3 km
- Still Gutord 1len here1.36 km37%total4 km
- Hadnot Creekord 1len here1.30 km25%total5 km
- Wolf Pit Branchord 1len here1.08 km22%total5 km
- Webb Creekord 1len here0.88 km22%total4 km
- Brice Creekord 2len here0.66 km7%total9 km
4 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
- 34.88372, -77.06819
- 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.