Marine Protected Area · usa
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Area
- 751 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 2006
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 2006
- Managing authority
- Joint ; State Fish and Wildlife ; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ; Non-Governmental Organization
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 523 distinct species · 538 098 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve : 26 espèces reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 18 lakes · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
27,9km
Lake surface here
8,06km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
2 629km²
Discharge in basins
0,6m³/s
Mean precip.
937mm/an
Mean T°
21,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,30
Mean runoff
237mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
11m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Gulf Intracoastal Waterwaysub-area450 km²overlap167.32 km²22%
- Bassin de Garcitas Creeksub-area2 628,5 km²overlap50.25 km²7%
- Bassin de Artesian Creeksub-area382,9 km²overlap49.40 km²7%
- Bassin de Gulf Intracoastal Waterwaysub-area724,9 km²overlap32.29 km²4%
- Bassin de Cavasso Creeksub-area246,3 km²overlap29.87 km²4%
- Bassin de Medio Creeksub-area2 580 km²overlap15.11 km²2%
- Basin #48750sub-area94,6 km²overlap3.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Chiltipin Creeksub-area2 296,4 km²overlap1.51 km²0%
- Basin #48730sub-area80,8 km²overlap0.41 km²0%
Lakes (18, top by area)
- Big Brundrett Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #14466area1,3 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #14470area1,1 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lac 1068265area0,7 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1068317area0,7 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1068315area0,5 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1068334area0,5 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1068291area0,4 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1068270area0,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
9 more lakes
- Lac 1068286area0,3 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1068284area0,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1068305area0,2 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lac 1068341area0,2 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1068324area0,2 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1068311area0,2 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1068327area0,1 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lac 1068345area0,1 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lac 1068540area0,1 km²avg depth0.8 m
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- Burgentine Creekord 2len here7.27 km80%total9 km
- Mission Riverord 4len here6.93 km18%total37 km
- Artesian Creekord 2len here4.18 km14%total29 km
- Gulf Intracoastal Waterwayord 1len here4.03 km100%total4 km
- Salt Creekord 1len here3.21 km44%total7 km
- Gulf Intracoastal Waterwayord 2len here1.46 km98%total1 km
- Cavasso Creekord 2len here0.72 km7%total11 km
- Chiltipin Creekord 5len here0.14 km0%total75 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
- 28.09767, -97.12692
- 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.