Nature Reserve · aus
Gibson Desert
- Area
- 18 421 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ia
- Year
- 1977
Overview
- Designation
- Nature Reserve
- IUCN category
- Ia · Réserve naturelle intégrale
Protection stricte, accès limité aux fins scientifiques
- Established
- 1977
- Managing authority
- AU-WA_DBCA
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
635 distinct species · 3 034 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Gibson Desert : 27 espèces reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.3%, 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).
Hydrology27 basins · 1 lakes · 0 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Lake surface here
0,88km²
Basins crossed
27
Max drainage
4 472km²
Discharge in basins
0,4m³/s
Mean precip.
181mm/an
Mean T°
23,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,90
Mean runoff
5mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
441m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #89960sub-area2 497 km²overlap2200.73 km²12%
- Basin #90330sub-area2 072,7 km²overlap2014.41 km²11%
- Basin #24180sub-area1 965,6 km²overlap1936.02 km²11%
- Basin #90600sub-area1 883,1 km²overlap1687.22 km²9%
- Basin #91240sub-area1 472,2 km²overlap1467.14 km²8%
- Basin #90420sub-area1 985,3 km²overlap1428.93 km²8%
- Basin #26780sub-area2 152,4 km²overlap1376.20 km²7%
- Basin #24300sub-area2 146,8 km²overlap1359.37 km²7%
- Basin #08560sub-area1 664,8 km²overlap979.34 km²5%
18 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #91460sub-area1 353,7 km²overlap975.39 km²5%
- Basin #99310sub-area963 km²overlap682.16 km²4%
- Basin #92860sub-area902,2 km²overlap448.23 km²2%
- Basin #96250sub-area442,4 km²overlap441.49 km²2%
- Basin #92920sub-area1 193,7 km²overlap276.91 km²2%
- Basin #34800sub-area1 784,8 km²overlap268.30 km²1%
- Basin #97940sub-area412,7 km²overlap239.58 km²1%
- Basin #98070sub-area351,4 km²overlap205.49 km²1%
- Basin #31650sub-area1 703,5 km²overlap131.21 km²1%
- Basin #96850sub-area451,3 km²overlap99.31 km²1%
- Basin #96310sub-area691,2 km²overlap58.67 km²0%
- Basin #95660sub-area485,1 km²overlap39.09 km²0%
- Basin #08170sub-area251,5 km²overlap35.94 km²0%
- Basin #94890sub-area2 437,4 km²overlap32.05 km²0%
- Basin #26710sub-area359,5 km²overlap20.56 km²0%
- Basin #99320sub-area90,6 km²overlap16.44 km²0%
- Basin #93090sub-area841,5 km²overlap0.27 km²0%
- Basin #95050sub-area807,6 km²overlap0.09 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
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
- -24.91527, 125.50134
- 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.