Wilderness Area · can
French River Wilderness Area
- Area
- 164 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2016
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2016
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
171 distinct species · 691 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 French River Wilderness Area : 35 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, 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).
Hydrology1 basins · 14 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
57,4km
Lake surface here
2,47km²
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
3 229km²
Discharge in basins
0,1m³/s
Mean precip.
1 408mm/an
Mean T°
4,4°C
Moisture idx
0,55
Max snow
45%
Mean runoff
1 224mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
287m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (14, top by area)
- Wreck Cove Flowagearea3,4 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 1028417area0,6 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1026267area0,5 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1027647area0,4 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1026447area0,3 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1028428area0,3 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1026184area0,3 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1026337area0,2 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1026654area0,2 km²avg depth3.8 m
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- East Branch Indian Brookord 2len here11.12 km32%total35 km
- West Branch Indian Brookord 3len here8.97 km41%total22 km
- Barachois Riverord 2len here7.37 km40%total18 km
- Inner Cross Mountain Brookord 2len here5.67 km99%total6 km
- MacKeigans Brookord 1len here5.26 km78%total7 km
- Timber Brookord 3len here4.74 km45%total11 km
- Kerrs Brookord 1len here4.43 km69%total6 km
- North Brookord 2len here4.11 km70%total6 km
- MacKeigans Brookord 1len here2.70 km96%total3 km
- Little Riverord 2len here1.34 km15%total9 km
- Wreck Cove Brookord 2len here1.22 km11%total11 km
- Indian Brookord 3len here0.42 km3%total12 km
2 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
- 46.44251, -60.61643
- 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.