Wilderness Area · can
Medway Lakes Wilderness Area
- Area
- 196 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2016
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2016
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
239 distinct species · 528 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 57 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 Medway Lakes Wilderness Area : 45 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology2 basins · 31 lakes · 20 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
87,9km
Lake surface here
15,34km²
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 943km²
Discharge in basins
6,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 347mm/an
Mean T°
6,1°C
Moisture idx
0,47
Max snow
34%
Mean runoff
942mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
119m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (31, top by area)
- Boot Lakearea7,7 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Alma Lakearea2,8 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Croker Lakesarea1,3 km²avg depth6.1 m
- Long Lakearea1,3 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Frog Lakearea1,1 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 1044614area0,9 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1044565area0,9 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 1044410area0,8 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1044512area0,8 km²avg depth3.5 m
22 more lakes
- Lac 1044419area0,8 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 1044508area0,8 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 1044477area0,6 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 1044667area0,6 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1044840area0,5 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 1044379area0,5 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1044365area0,4 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 1044676area0,4 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1044306area0,4 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1044001area0,4 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 1044343area0,3 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1044272area0,3 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1044173area0,3 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1044286area0,2 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1044529area0,2 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1044843area0,2 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1044898area0,2 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1044945area0,2 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 1044024area0,1 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1044102area0,1 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 1044308area0,1 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1044416area0,1 km²avg depth2.6 m
Rivers / streams (20, ord ≥ 4)
- Mersey Riverord 4len here16.82 km13%total133 km
- East Branch Medway Riverord 2len here9.94 km91%total11 km
- Randolphs Streamord 1len here9.65 km85%total11 km
- Bog Brookord 2len here9.49 km66%total14 km
- Medway Riverord 4len here6.81 km7%total95 km
- West Branch Medway Riverord 2len here5.43 km73%total7 km
- Little Runord 3len here4.85 km99%total5 km
- Donnelly Brookord 2len here4.79 km38%total13 km
- Birch Bridge Brookord 1len here4.55 km99%total5 km
- Tuskopeake Brookord 1len here3.69 km47%total8 km
- Uhlman Meadow Brookord 1len here2.64 km79%total3 km
- Isaac Meadow Brookord 1len here2.22 km97%total2 km
8 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Elder Brookord 3len here1.71 km95%total2 km
- Spurr Meadow Brookord 1len here1.56 km47%total3 km
- Ramsey Meadows Brookord 1len here1.33 km82%total2 km
- Mill Brookord 3len here0.95 km11%total9 km
- Luxtons Meadow Brookord 1len here0.95 km28%total3 km
- Mitchell Brookord 1len here0.41 km8%total5 km
- Thomas Brookord 2len here0.08 km4%total2 km
- Porcupine Brookord 1len here0.05 km1%total4 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
- 44.55164, -65.29233
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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.