Conservation Reserve · can
Lake Nipigon Conservation Reserve
- Area
- 1 753 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2003
Overview
- Designation
- Conservation Reserve
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2003
- Managing authority
- Ontario Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
317 distinct species · 657 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 Lake Nipigon Conservation Reserve : 27 espèces reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology20 basins · 50 lakes · 23 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
69,8km
Lake surface here
494,26km²
Basins crossed
20
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
25 645km²
Discharge in basins
127,2m³/s
Mean precip.
753mm/an
Mean T°
0,3°C
Moisture idx
0,06
Max snow
51%
Mean runoff
512mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
296m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Oskawe Creeksub-area1 334,9 km²overlap500.52 km²29%
- Bassin de Gull Riversub-area1 071,5 km²overlap181.99 km²10%
- Bassin de Onaman Riversub-area1 779,7 km²overlap177.58 km²10%
- Bassin de Gull Riversub-area1 004,2 km²overlap175.72 km²10%
- Bassin de Wabinosh Riversub-area1 508,5 km²overlap138.61 km²8%
- Basin #81070sub-area432,4 km²overlap104.56 km²6%
- Bassin de Poshkokagan Riversub-area1 430,3 km²overlap100.85 km²6%
- Bassin de Pikitigushi Riversub-area1 901,1 km²overlap95.19 km²5%
- Bassin de Nipigon Riversub-area1 180 km²overlap72.59 km²4%
11 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Little Jackfish Riversub-area1 011,3 km²overlap70.87 km²4%
- Bassin de Ombabika Riversub-area489,5 km²overlap35.96 km²2%
- Bassin de Pinigwim Creeksub-area629,7 km²overlap35.69 km²2%
- Basin #80940sub-area109 km²overlap26.29 km²2%
- Basin #83860sub-area144,8 km²overlap21.11 km²1%
- Bassin de Blackwater Riversub-area1 460,8 km²overlap7.28 km²0%
- Bassin de Kabitotikwia Riversub-area916,7 km²overlap6.65 km²0%
- Basin #98660sub-area345,2 km²overlap0.81 km²0%
- Bassin de Namewaminikan Riversub-area540,3 km²overlap0.41 km²0%
- Basin #87740sub-area68,7 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
- Bassin de Blackwater Riversub-area1,9 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Nipigonarea4 506 km²avg depth55.0 m
- Castle Lakearea6,1 km²avg depth22.2 m
- Bonner Lakearea2,6 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Beacon Lakearea2 km²avg depth13.2 m
- Walkover Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth11.5 m
- Oribine Lakearea1 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lehtinen Lakearea1 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 973451area1 km²avg depth10.0 m
- Lac 969935area0,9 km²avg depth5.1 m
41 more lakes
- Lac 970214area0,9 km²avg depth7.8 m
- Lac 965759area0,9 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 969789area0,8 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 961135area0,8 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Lac 970242area0,6 km²avg depth6.8 m
- Lac 975275area0,6 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Lac 960862area0,6 km²avg depth6.1 m
- Lac 975699area0,6 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 959878area0,5 km²avg depth7.2 m
- Lac 971016area0,5 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 971328area0,5 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 970344area0,4 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 960574area0,4 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Lac 959801area0,3 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 971216area0,3 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 971185area0,3 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 963466area0,3 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 962352area0,3 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 971883area0,3 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 967917area0,3 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 973689area0,3 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 959680area0,2 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 960522area0,2 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Lac 963802area0,2 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 965364area0,2 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 960336area0,2 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lac 960168area0,2 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 971285area0,2 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 960562area0,1 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 962630area0,1 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 965995area0,1 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 971492area0,1 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 971128area0,1 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 965957area0,1 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 961101area0,1 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 961827area0,1 km²avg depth6.9 m
- Lac 959672area0,1 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 959702area0,1 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 966413area0,1 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 971262area0,1 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 961441area0,1 km²avg depth3.5 m
Rivers / streams (23, ord ≥ 4)
- Whitesand Riverord 4len here16.84 km17%total100 km
- Pikitigushi Riverord 4len here10.20 km7%total141 km
- Rapid Creekord 2len here4.92 km21%total24 km
- Owl Creekord 7len here4.63 km14%total34 km
- Krug Creekord 1len here4.58 km89%total5 km
- Cox Creekord 2len here3.81 km13%total29 km
- McCann Creekord 2len here2.87 km23%total13 km
- Emerald Creekord 1len here2.42 km44%total6 km
- Humboldt Creekord 4len here2.03 km19%total11 km
- Stewart Creekord 2len here1.92 km8%total25 km
- Hogan Creekord 2len here1.84 km33%total6 km
- Little Jackfish Riverord 3len here1.80 km3%total63 km
11 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Ombabika Riverord 4len here1.76 km2%total112 km
- Nipigon Riverord 6len here1.68 km2%total85 km
- Oskawe Creekord 2len here1.39 km10%total14 km
- Roaring Creekord 2len here1.34 km5%total26 km
- Slant Creekord 1len here1.23 km32%total4 km
- North Wind Riverord 3len here1.21 km20%total6 km
- Lamaune Creekord 3len here1.17 km2%total49 km
- Marten Creekord 1len here1.08 km7%total15 km
- Poshkokagan Riverord 3len here0.52 km0%total126 km
- Shadow Creekord 2len here0.50 km2%total22 km
- Gull Riverord 5len here0.12 km0%total270 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
- 49.48009, -88.65361
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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.