UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve · aus
Mornington Peninsula & Western Port
- Area
- 2 141 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1978
Overview
- Designation
- UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
- Established
- 1978
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
8 319 distinct species · 1 255 221 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Mornington Peninsula & Western Port : 18 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 3 lakes · 28 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
154,8km
Lake surface here
2,30km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 632km²
Discharge in basins
1,1m³/s
Mean precip.
904mm/an
Mean T°
14,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,11
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
273mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
66m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Grasmere Creeksub-area1 338,7 km²overlap850.08 km²40%
- Bassin de Powlett Riversub-area1 632,4 km²overlap668.68 km²31%
- Bassin de Dandenong Creeksub-area778,4 km²overlap20.51 km²1%
- Basin #72560sub-area4,8 km²overlap4.77 km²0%
- Bassin de Tarago Riversub-area1 024,9 km²overlap4.57 km²0%
- Bassin de Lang Lang Riversub-area615,2 km²overlap3.59 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (28, ord ≥ 4)
- Bass Riverord 2len here32.83 km71%total46 km
- Watson Creekord 1len here17.79 km100%total18 km
- Main Creekord 1len here11.24 km100%total11 km
- Devilbend Creekord 1len here9.79 km100%total10 km
- Chinamans Creekord 2len here9.54 km100%total10 km
- Balcombe Creekord 2len here9.08 km100%total9 km
- Hanns Creekord 2len here5.72 km100%total6 km
- Dunns Creekord 1len here5.55 km100%total6 km
- Wattle Creekord 1len here5.38 km100%total5 km
- Warringine Creekord 1len here4.73 km100%total5 km
- Tennent Creekord 1len here4.58 km100%total5 km
- Western Contour Drainord 2len here4.50 km100%total5 km
16 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Stony Creekord 1len here4.31 km100%total4 km
- Olivers Creekord 1len here3.70 km100%total4 km
- Redbill Creekord 1len here3.50 km100%total4 km
- Yallock Creekord 3len here2.69 km10%total28 km
- Ararat Creekord 4len here2.57 km8%total30 km
- Cardinia Creekord 3len here2.34 km23%total10 km
- Mosquito Creekord 1len here2.09 km100%total2 km
- Kings Creekord 1len here1.86 km100%total2 km
- Manton Creekord 1len here1.72 km100%total2 km
- Rutherford Creekord 1len here1.70 km23%total8 km
- Little Lang Lang Riverord 1len here1.60 km14%total12 km
- Coolart Creekord 1len here1.50 km100%total2 km
- Lang Lang Riverord 1len here1.41 km23%total6 km
- Saltwater Creekord 1len here1.28 km100%total1 km
- Clyde Creekord 1len here0.92 km8%total12 km
- East Creekord 1len here0.88 km100%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
- -38.35065, 145.28323
- 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.