Representative Area Ecological Reserve · can
Great Sand Hills
- Area
- 373 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2005
Overview
- Designation
- Representative Area Ecological Reserve
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2005
- Managing authority
- Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Environment
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
202 distinct species · 953 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Great Sand Hills : 25 espèces reliées par 117 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 0 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Basins crossed
7
Max drainage
1 089km²
Discharge in basins
0,2m³/s
Mean precip.
342mm/an
Mean T°
3,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,59
Max snow
25%
Mean runoff
28mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
711m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #76470sub-area1 088,7 km²overlap126.22 km²34%
- Basin #78380sub-area452,9 km²overlap111.18 km²30%
- Basin #78940sub-area683,6 km²overlap103.91 km²28%
- Basin #81870sub-area112,6 km²overlap29.73 km²8%
- Basin #78630sub-area315,5 km²overlap1.46 km²0%
- Basin #55750sub-area418,3 km²overlap0.29 km²0%
- Bassin de Miry Creeksub-area882,4 km²overlap0.17 km²0%
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
- 50.61595, -109.19044
- 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.