Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · usa
Lower Wisconsin Riverway
- Area
- 175 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ia
- Year
- 2020
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- IUCN category
- Ia · Réserve naturelle intégrale
Protection stricte, accès limité aux fins scientifiques
- Established
- 2020
- Managing authority
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (responsible for managing land within its ownership. Lands owned by other agencies, nations, and private individuals are managed by those owners.)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 137 distinct species · 34 087 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 Lower Wisconsin Riverway : 34 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology12 basins · 3 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
80,8km
Lake surface here
0,87km²
Basins crossed
12
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
174 223km²
Discharge in basins
164,5m³/s
Mean precip.
825mm/an
Mean T°
7,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,13
Max snow
18%
Mean runoff
276mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
283m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Wisconsin Riversub-area1 183,2 km²overlap48.19 km²28%
- Bassin de Knapp Creeksub-area746,4 km²overlap37.44 km²21%
- Bassin de Wisconsin Riversub-area306,6 km²overlap27.89 km²16%
- Bassin de Mill Creeksub-area482,3 km²overlap25.66 km²15%
- Bassin de Wisconsin Riversub-area35,8 km²overlap14.95 km²9%
- Bassin de Wisconsin Riversub-area870,4 km²overlap10.50 km²6%
- Bassin de Kickapoo Riversub-area1 980,9 km²overlap2.87 km²2%
- Bassin de Black Earth Creeksub-area433,9 km²overlap2.52 km²1%
- Bassin de Honey Creeksub-area482,2 km²overlap1.79 km²1%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Wisconsin Riverord 7len here55.49 km6%total962 km
- Knapp Creekord 5len here5.14 km5%total111 km
- Mill Creekord 7len here2.77 km0%total1839 km
- Otter Creekord 4len here2.76 km0%total1381 km
- Black Earth Creekord 4len here2.29 km6%total37 km
- Grand Grae Creekord 2len here2.23 km24%total9 km
- Morrey Creekord 2len here2.08 km22%total9 km
- Cross Sloughord 4len here1.47 km15%total10 km
- Little Kickapo0 Creekord 1len here1.26 km18%total7 km
- Mississippi Riverord 9len here1.06 km0%total5243 km
- Sanders Creekord 3len here0.81 km2%total45 km
- Crooked Creekord 6len here0.79 km0%total1147 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Bush Creekord 3len here0.62 km2%total37 km
- Pine Riverord 5len here0.61 km0%total226 km
- Lowery Creekord 3len here0.45 km4%total13 km
- Byrds Creekord 1len here0.34 km7%total5 km
- Riverview Adventure Company Tubing Routeord 5len here0.26 km9%total3 km
- Richland Creekord 5len here0.19 km0%total537 km
- Big Green Riverord 2len here0.15 km1%total30 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
- 43.17193, -90.15346
- Open in maps
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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.