Ontologia

National Recreation Area · usa

Lake Mead

V · Paysage protégé5 228 km²Established 1936
Key facts
Area
5 228 km²
IUCN cat.
V
Year
1936

Overview

Designation
National Recreation Area
IUCN category
V · Paysage protégé

Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation

Established
1936
Managing authority
National Park Service

Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).

Species present

1 794 distinct species · 210 711 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 37 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 Lake Mead : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
38
Interactions affichées
100
Connectance
0.142
Patrimoniales
1
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydrology22 basins · 2 lakes · 52 rivers

Hydrology metrics for this exact territory

Stream length here

997,8km

Lake surface here

675,68km²

Basins crossed

22

Max stream order

7

Max drainage

427 397km²

Discharge in basins

2 773,9m³/s

Mean precip.

173mm/an

Mean T°

18,1°C

Moisture idx

-0,88

Max snow

5%

Mean runoff

11mm/an

Mean elev. (basins)

826m

Watersheds crossing here

13 more basins

Rivers / streams (52, ord ≥ 4)

40 more river segments

Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10

Location

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Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)

Centroid
35.88152, -114.69006
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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.