No recommendation · usa
Dark Canyon Instant Study Area Complex
- Area
- 275 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1980
Overview
- Designation
- No recommendation
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1980
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
176 distinct species · 393 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 56 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 Dark Canyon Instant Study Area Complex : 39 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 121 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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 · 0 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
79,6km
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
185 433km²
Discharge in basins
65,7m³/s
Mean precip.
288mm/an
Mean T°
9,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,75
Max snow
7%
Mean runoff
17mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 915m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Dark Canyonord 3len here25.64 km50%total51 km
- Bowdie Canyonord 2len here13.35 km84%total16 km
- Fable Valley Washord 1len here10.85 km100%total11 km
- Gypsum Canyonord 7len here7.95 km44%total18 km
- Lost Canyonord 2len here7.64 km31%total24 km
- Lean-To Canyonord 3len here7.17 km57%total13 km
- Black Steer Canyonord 1len here3.66 km42%total9 km
- Colorado Riverord 8len here3.35 km0%total3561 km
- Cross Canyonord 3len here≈ tangenttotal105 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
- 37.89343, -110.15425
- 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.