Wilderness Area · can
Kelley River Wilderness Area
- Area
- 209 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2012
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2012
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
127 distinct species · 237 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Kelley River Wilderness Area : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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 · 4 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
58,0km
Lake surface here
0,42km²
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 262km²
Discharge in basins
5,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 170mm/an
Mean T°
5,7°C
Moisture idx
0,33
Max snow
37%
Mean runoff
818mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
86m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- Kelley Riverord 2len here18.34 km86%total21 km
- Atkinson Brookord 1len here9.07 km89%total10 km
- Halfway Riverord 2len here5.35 km30%total18 km
- River Hébertord 3len here5.02 km14%total35 km
- Sandhill Brookord 1len here4.05 km100%total4 km
- Elm Brookord 2len here3.44 km99%total3 km
- Maccan Riverord 3len here3.15 km10%total32 km
- Bearden Brookord 1len here2.86 km100%total3 km
- Sugarwoods Brookord 2len here2.25 km89%total3 km
- Porter Brookord 1len here1.29 km23%total6 km
- Tipping Brookord 1len here0.85 km100%total1 km
- Patton Creekord 1len here0.85 km100%total1 km
3 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 45.51114, -64.50746
- 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.