HydroLAKES lake · #67

Great Salt

Natural lakeUnited States of AmericaNorth America 1282 m

Surface area

6 478,85km²

Avg depth

3,5m

Volume

22 800km³

Shoreline

802,8km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-7080510360217 km² · upstream 39277 km²

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Box Elder
Utah · United States
3738.34 km²
57.6% of lake
Tooele
Utah · United States
1209.40 km²
18.6% of lake
Davis
Utah · United States
969.66 km²
14.9% of lake
Weber
Utah · United States
366.36 km²
5.6% of lake
Salt Lake
Utah · United States
203.80 km²
3.1% of lake

16 intersecting protected areas

Bear River Migratory
IUCN IV
Bird Refuge
304.35 km² overlap
Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 143
IUCN V
State Wildlife Reserve/Management Area
36.17 km² overlap
Farmington Bay
IUCN V
State Wildlife Area
14.39 km² overlap
Harold Crane
IUCN V
State Wildlife Area
13.47 km² overlap
Ogden Bay
IUCN V
State Wildlife Area
12.10 km² overlap
Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 190
IUCN V
State Wildlife Reserve/Management Area
5.16 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Box Elder, UT
IUCN V
Reserve Program
4.47 km² overlap
Timple Springs
IUCN V
State Wildlife Area
3.05 km² overlap
Great Salt Lake Shorelands
IUCN V
Lake
0.45 km² overlap

7 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 165
IUCN V
State Wildlife Reserve/Management Area
0.45 km² overlap
Bear River Watershed
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.33 km² overlap
Great Salt Lake Shorelands
IUCN V
Lake
0.21 km² overlap
Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 164
IUCN V
State Wildlife Reserve/Management Area
0.06 km² overlap
Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 498
IUCN V
State Wildlife Reserve/Management Area
0.06 km² overlap
Great Salt
IUCN V
Lake
0.05 km² overlap
Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 158
IUCN V
State Wildlife Reserve/Management Area
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 089 distinct species · 1 145 928 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 27 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Great Salt : 17 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 21.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.219

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)

Surface

6 478,85km²

Avg depth

3,5m

Volume

22 800,000km³

Watershed

86 896km²

Shoreline

802,8km

Shore dev. idx

2,81

Residence time

1 230days

Elevation

1 282m

HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.