Wilderness · usa
Flat Tops
- Area
- 935 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1975
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1975
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 092 distinct species · 11 977 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Flat Tops : 31 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 7 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
113,4km
Lake surface here
2,23km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
8 833km²
Discharge in basins
4,9m³/s
Mean precip.
545mm/an
Mean T°
1,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,34
Max snow
54%
Mean runoff
106mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 828m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de North Fork White Riversub-area666,9 km²overlap309.38 km²33%
- Bassin de South Fork White Riversub-area468,5 km²overlap265.83 km²28%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area2 713 km²overlap199.62 km²21%
- Bassin de Williams Forksub-area1 141,6 km²overlap85.86 km²9%
- Bassin de Yampa Riversub-area1 639,3 km²overlap51.73 km²6%
- Bassin de Elkhead Creeksub-area1 932,9 km²overlap22.54 km²2%
Lakes (7, top by area)
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- South Fork White Riverord 2len here46.47 km67%total69 km
- Marvine Creekord 2len here12.16 km44%total27 km
- Middle Fork Derby Creekord 1len here7.75 km95%total8 km
- Park Creekord 2len here7.61 km30%total26 km
- East Marvine Creekord 2len here7.29 km76%total10 km
- Big Fish Creekord 2len here5.73 km60%total10 km
- Turret Creekord 2len here4.97 km51%total10 km
- North Fork Derby Creekord 1len here4.94 km69%total7 km
- Fraser Creekord 1len here4.14 km66%total6 km
- Sweetwater Creekord 3len here3.61 km4%total103 km
- Cabin Creekord 5len here3.00 km9%total32 km
- North Fork White Riverord 3len here2.24 km3%total81 km
3 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
- 39.95389, -107.25578
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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.