Preserve · usa
Friends of the Desert Mountains
- Area
- 50 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 2011
Overview
- Designation
- Preserve
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 2011
- Managing authority
- Non-Governmental Organization
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
476 distinct species · 8 054 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Friends of the Desert Mountains : 39 espèces reliées par 139 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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 · 0 lakes · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
6,3km
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
5 875km²
Discharge in basins
0,1m³/s
Mean precip.
193mm/an
Mean T°
19,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,87
Mean runoff
46mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
543m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Coachella Canalsub-area5 683,2 km²overlap36.83 km²73%
- Bassin de Coachella Canalsub-area2 017,9 km²overlap8.28 km²16%
- Bassin de Acari Ditchsub-area1 020,9 km²overlap2.71 km²5%
- Basin #79850sub-area189,8 km²overlap1.33 km²3%
- Bassin de Calada Ditchsub-area952,1 km²overlap0.65 km²1%
- Bassin de Ajax Ditchsub-area548,3 km²overlap0.52 km²1%
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- Horse Creekord 2len here1.65 km12%total14 km
- Coachella Canalord 4len here1.41 km1%total129 km
- Esso Ditchord 1len here0.88 km6%total14 km
- Salt Creekord 3len here0.64 km2%total26 km
- Brown Arroyoord 1len here0.63 km8%total8 km
- Saddle Gulchord 2len here0.59 km8%total7 km
- Cedar Creekord 1len here0.29 km19%total2 km
- Whitewater River Overfloword 3len here0.20 km1%total21 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
- 33.59109, -115.58230
- 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.