Conservation zone in regional land use plan · can
Fossil Lake
- Area
- 184 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2018
Overview
- Designation
- Conservation zone in regional land use plan
- Established
- 2018
- Managing authority
- Indigenous Government; Government of the Northwest Territories; Federal Government (Crown-Indigenous Relations And Northern Affairs Canada)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
44 distinct species · 79 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 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 Fossil Lake : 7 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 25.0%, 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 · 25 lakes · 1 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
6,6km
Lake surface here
4,36km²
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
9
Max drainage
1 660 883km²
Discharge in basins
2 918,4m³/s
Mean precip.
285mm/an
Mean T°
-7,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,41
Max snow
59%
Mean runoff
259mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
92m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (25, top by area)
- Lac 391128area0,8 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 397065area0,8 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 395293area0,5 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 393718area0,3 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 394063area0,2 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 394473area0,2 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 394688area0,2 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 394272area0,2 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 390948area0,2 km²avg depth3.7 m
16 more lakes
- Lac 395135area0,2 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 393695area0,2 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 398221area0,2 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 394213area0,2 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 396863area0,1 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 390544area0,1 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 397662area0,1 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 394813area0,1 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 394472area0,1 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 393881area0,1 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 398268area0,1 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 394232area0,1 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 394064area0,1 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 396742area0,1 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 394814area0,1 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 394490area0,1 km²avg depth3.2 m
Rivers / streams (1, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 66.29769, -128.84197
- 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.