Forest Reserve · mwi
Karonga North Escarpment
- Area
- 79 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 2002
Overview
- Designation
- Forest Reserve
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 2002
- Managing authority
- Department of Forestry
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
133 distinct species · 296 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Karonga North Escarpment : 40 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 3.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology3 basins · 0 lakes · 3 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
10,0km
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
4 216km²
Discharge in basins
1,2m³/s
Mean precip.
1 443mm/an
Mean T°
21,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,07
Mean runoff
249mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 100m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (3, ord ≥ 4)
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
- -9.80391, 33.78752
- 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.