UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve · gbr
Galloway and South Ayrshire Biosphere
- Area
- 106 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2012
Overview
- Designation
- UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
- Established
- 2012
- Managing authority
- Galloway and South Ayrshire Biosphere Partnership Board
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 150 distinct species · 3 940 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Galloway and South Ayrshire Biosphere : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 6 lakes · 16 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
25,5km
Lake surface here
1,71km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
2 030km²
Discharge in basins
2,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 308mm/an
Mean T°
7,6°C
Moisture idx
0,56
Max snow
20%
Mean runoff
1 112mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
193m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (6, top by area)
Rivers / streams (16, ord ≥ 4)
- Black Garpelord 2len here5.95 km87%total7 km
- Big Water of Fleetord 3len here3.67 km23%total16 km
- Gairland Burnord 1len here2.93 km92%total3 km
- Kirriemore Burnord 3len here2.42 km59%total4 km
- Polharrow Burnord 2len here1.67 km17%total10 km
- Buchan Burnord 2len here1.62 km33%total5 km
- Cross Burnord 2len here1.33 km29%total5 km
- Water of Minnochord 3len here1.23 km7%total17 km
- Cooran Laneord 2len here1.10 km29%total4 km
- Trostan Burnord 1len here1.05 km57%total2 km
- Tunskeen Laneord 1len here0.82 km36%total2 km
- Brishie Burnord 1len here0.80 km100%total1 km
4 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
- 55.13879, -4.46711
- 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.