Ontologia

HydroLAKES lake · #183045

Phalaborwa Barrage

ReservoirSouth AfricaAfrica 312 m

Surface area

1,18km²

Avg depth

4,8m

Volume

5,7km³

Shoreline

16,1km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-1081575120926 km² · upstream 47646 km²

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Ehlanzeni
    Mpumalanga · South Africa
    0.69 km²
    58.7% of lake
  • Mopani
    Limpopo · South Africa
    0.48 km²
    41.3% of lake

1 intersecting protected areas

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

Species present

420 distinct species · 2 774 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 774 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2 774
2 774–2 773
2 774–2 773
2 774–2 773
< 2 774

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 22 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

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Phalaborwa Barrage : 19 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
23
Interactions affichées
21
Connectance
0.083
Patrimoniales
2
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

1,18km²

Avg depth

4,8m

Volume

5,700km³

Watershed

47 628km²

Shoreline

16,1km

Shore dev. idx

4,19

Residence time

1days

Elevation

312m

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