Wildlife Refuge · usa
Marsh Island
- Area
- 286 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1991
Overview
- Designation
- Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1991
- Managing authority
- State Department of Natural Resources
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
247 distinct species · 1 022 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Marsh Island : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology1 basins · 24 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
36,9km
Lake surface here
15,27km²
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
1 522km²
Discharge in basins
0,5m³/s
Mean precip.
1 517mm/an
Mean T°
20,0°C
Moisture idx
0,14
Mean runoff
711mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (24, top by area)
- Oyster Lakearea2,4 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lake Fermearea1,6 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #14095area1,5 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #14091area1,4 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lac 1066842area0,8 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1066857area0,7 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1066783area0,7 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1066825area0,7 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1066869area0,7 km²avg depth1.4 m
15 more lakes
- Lac 1066828area0,6 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1066885area0,6 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1066829area0,5 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1066875area0,4 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1066810area0,4 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1066806area0,4 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1066791area0,4 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1066803area0,3 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lac 1066762area0,3 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lac 1066867area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1066821area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1066866area0,2 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1066831area0,2 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1066817area0,2 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1066795area0,1 km²avg depth1.3 m
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Bayou Lucienord 2len here12.00 km98%total12 km
- West Branch Oyster Bayouord 1len here9.51 km100%total10 km
- Bayou Platteord 1len here6.24 km100%total6 km
- East Branch Oyster Bayouord 1len here4.91 km100%total5 km
- Worm Bayouord 1len here1.84 km99%total2 km
- Worm Bayouord 2len here1.84 km100%total2 km
- Oyster Bayouord 2len here0.61 km101%total1 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
- 29.55676, -91.85919
- 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.