Wilderness Area · USA
Joshua Tree
- Area
- 2 396 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
387 distinct species · 1 577 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 Joshua Tree : 35 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 116 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology13 basins · 0 lakes · 11 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
153,7km
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
5 684km²
Discharge in basins
1,5m³/s
Mean precip.
173mm/an
Mean T°
19,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,89
Mean runoff
28mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
700m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Pinto Washsub-area871,2 km²overlap581.45 km²24%
- Bassin de Coachella Canalsub-area5 683,2 km²overlap492.88 km²21%
- Bassin de Pinto Washsub-area658,4 km²overlap434.70 km²18%
- Bassin de Smoke Tree Washsub-area252,2 km²overlap179.77 km²8%
- Bassin de Quail Washsub-area650,3 km²overlap173.18 km²7%
- Basin #75330sub-area1 413,9 km²overlap101.50 km²4%
- Bassin de Ajax Ditchsub-area548,3 km²overlap98.07 km²4%
- Basin #86670sub-area621,6 km²overlap89.81 km²4%
- Basin #75390sub-area710,8 km²overlap89.35 km²4%
Rivers / streams (11, ord ≥ 4)
- Pinto Washord 4len here68.81 km73%total95 km
- Fried Liver Washord 3len here18.41 km89%total21 km
- Smoke Tree Washord 4len here15.71 km38%total41 km
- Quail Washord 3len here12.50 km34%total37 km
- Porcupine Washord 1len here11.89 km55%total21 km
- Washington Washord 2len here10.65 km100%total11 km
- Placer Canyonord 1len here6.07 km56%total11 km
- Cotton Gulchord 1len here5.45 km46%total12 km
- East Cactus Washord 1len here2.48 km25%total10 km
- Saddle Gulchord 2len here1.28 km18%total7 km
- San Bernardino Washord 2len here0.50 km6%total8 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
- 33.98997, -115.44667
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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.