Wilderness Area · USA
Isle Royale
- Area
- 565 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1976
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1976
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 114 distinct species · 33 239 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Isle Royale : 36 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 27 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
38,5km
Lake surface here
39,11km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
54 102km²
Discharge in basins
192,6m³/s
Mean precip.
760mm/an
Mean T°
3,3°C
Moisture idx
0,01
Max snow
42%
Mean runoff
616mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
193m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Salmon Trout Riversub-area2 384,6 km²overlap174.05 km²31%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area649,8 km²overlap74.62 km²13%
- Basin #37070sub-area596,9 km²overlap73.10 km²13%
- Bassin de Siskiwit Riversub-area516,7 km²overlap65.03 km²12%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area356,1 km²overlap52.61 km²9%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area271 km²overlap43.45 km²8%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area250,9 km²overlap39.68 km²7%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area278,9 km²overlap25.76 km²5%
- Basin #35530sub-area827,6 km²overlap13.59 km²2%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (27, top by area)
- Superiorarea81 843,9 km²avg depth146.7 m
- Siskiwit Lakearea16,2 km²avg depth12.2 m
- Lake Desorarea4,2 km²avg depth11.1 m
- Lake Richiearea1,9 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Feldtmann Lakearea1,8 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Sargent Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth6.4 m
- Lac 999979area0,9 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1003904area0,7 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 1000737area0,7 km²avg depth4.6 m
18 more lakes
- Lac 1001351area0,7 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 999868area0,6 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Lac 1000329area0,5 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 1000882area0,5 km²avg depth7.2 m
- Lac 1000376area0,5 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 1000083area0,3 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Lac 998417area0,2 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 999682area0,2 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1000674area0,2 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 999229area0,2 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 999838area0,2 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 999892area0,2 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 1002245area0,2 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 999486area0,2 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 999031area0,2 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 999691area0,2 km²avg depth4.0 m
- Lac 999341area0,1 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1001472area0,1 km²avg depth4.3 m
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Washington Creekord 1len here10.11 km53%total19 km
- Big Siskiwit Riverord 2len here8.52 km88%total10 km
- Little Siskiwit Riverord 1len here7.90 km93%total8 km
- Grace Creekord 1len here6.65 km80%total8 km
- Rainbow Coveord 1len here4.05 km69%total6 km
- Siskiwit Riverord 2len here1.25 km8%total16 km
- Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)ord 6len here≈ tangenttotal281 km
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
- 48.00707, -88.83031
- 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.