Special Protection Area (Birds Directive) · irl
Middle Shannon Callows SPA
- Area
- 58 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1996
Overview
- Designation
- Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
- Established
- 1996
- Managing authority
- See European Environment Agency Geospatial Data Catalogue for more information - https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/be2142b0-7dc4-42e3-afac-f7cc5f1a9ac6
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
917 distinct species · 3 549 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Middle Shannon Callows SPA : 17 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 18.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 10 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
66,2km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
8 925km²
Discharge in basins
32,4m³/s
Mean precip.
927mm/an
Mean T°
9,2°C
Moisture idx
0,31
Max snow
14%
Mean runoff
543mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
53m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Shannonsub-area523 km²overlap23.29 km²40%
- Bassin de Shannonsub-area251,3 km²overlap11.68 km²20%
- Bassin de Shannonsub-area149 km²overlap10.89 km²19%
- Bassin de Blackwatersub-area103,6 km²overlap8.73 km²15%
- Bassin de Brosnasub-area1 265,9 km²overlap1.93 km²3%
- Bassin de Sucksub-area1 632,2 km²overlap0.58 km²1%
- Bassin de Little Brosnasub-area556,8 km²overlap0.49 km²1%
Rivers / streams (10, ord ≥ 4)
- Shannonord 6len here54.02 km16%total343 km
- Blackwater Riverord 6len here4.41 km26%total17 km
- Cross Riverord 2len here1.78 km11%total16 km
- Rapemills Riverord 3len here1.45 km19%total8 km
- Brosnaord 4len here1.42 km1%total110 km
- Little Brosnaord 4len here1.02 km1%total74 km
- Athlone Canalord 5len here1.00 km100%total1 km
- Drinaghord 4len here0.52 km5%total11 km
- Gowlanord 2len here0.44 km6%total7 km
- Mill Raceord 4len here0.13 km1%total18 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
- 53.24888, -7.99838
- 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.