National Wildlife Refuge · usa
Northern Tallgrass Prairie
- Area
- 36 km²
- IUCN cat.
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Overview
- Designation
- National Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
0 - Managing authority
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ; Non-Governmental Organization ; State Fish and Wildlife ; Other or Unknown State Land
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
256 distinct species · 1 597 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Northern Tallgrass Prairie : 31 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology28 basins · 1 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
15,4km
Lake surface here
0,23km²
Basins crossed
28
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
30 959km²
Discharge in basins
0,5m³/s
Mean precip.
620mm/an
Mean T°
6,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,33
Max snow
30%
Mean runoff
140mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
392m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Yellow Medicine Riversub-area1 737,1 km²overlap8.30 km²23%
- Bassin de Pipestone Creeksub-area1 668,3 km²overlap4.67 km²13%
- Bassin de Lac qui Parle Riversub-area2 481,3 km²overlap3.07 km²8%
- Bassin de East Branch Chippewa Riversub-area1 213 km²overlap2.85 km²8%
- Bassin de Buffalo Riversub-area2 716,2 km²overlap1.95 km²5%
- Bassin de South Branch Two Riverssub-area2 609,5 km²overlap1.74 km²5%
- Bassin de Chippewa Riversub-area1 103,7 km²overlap1.49 km²4%
- Bassin de Minnesota Riversub-area514,5 km²overlap1.25 km²3%
- Bassin de South Branch Wild Rice Riversub-area785,8 km²overlap1.23 km²3%
19 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Little Sioux Riversub-area2 211,4 km²overlap1.05 km²3%
- Bassin de Pelican Riversub-area1 281,1 km²overlap0.99 km²3%
- Bassin de Des Moines Riversub-area579,4 km²overlap0.79 km²2%
- Bassin de Redwood Riversub-area1 892,8 km²overlap0.77 km²2%
- Bassin de Okabena Creeksub-area1 287,6 km²overlap0.77 km²2%
- Bassin de Boone Riversub-area2 327,6 km²overlap0.65 km²2%
- Bassin de Little Sioux Riversub-area1 430,5 km²overlap0.60 km²2%
- Bassin de Wild Rice Riversub-area820,4 km²overlap0.59 km²2%
- Bassin de Pomme de Terre Riversub-area2 086,8 km²overlap0.58 km²2%
- Bassin de Outlet Creeksub-area403,6 km²overlap0.56 km²2%
- Bassin de Chippewa Riversub-area192,6 km²overlap0.53 km²1%
- Bassin de Little Minnesota Riversub-area1 903,4 km²overlap0.43 km²1%
- Bassin de Pell Creeksub-area140,8 km²overlap0.35 km²1%
- Bassin de Rock Riversub-area776,6 km²overlap0.27 km²1%
- Bassin de Minnesota Riversub-area817,8 km²overlap0.27 km²1%
- Bassin de County Drain Number Twentysevensub-area409,1 km²overlap0.19 km²1%
- Bassin de Rabbit Riversub-area790,9 km²overlap0.16 km²0%
- Bassin de Shakopee Creeksub-area847,2 km²overlap0.16 km²0%
- Bassin de Otter Tail Riversub-area428,4 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- Beaver Creekord 6len here2.63 km0%total3076 km
- Little Sioux Riverord 5len here1.66 km0%total527 km
- Mud Creekord 6len here1.49 km0%total1406 km
- Jack Creek North Branchord 2len here1.27 km3%total46 km
- West Branch Beaver Creekord 1len here0.96 km16%total6 km
- North Branch Yellow Medicine Riverord 2len here0.92 km2%total44 km
- Fish Creekord 5len here0.90 km0%total378 km
- Cobb Creekord 2len here0.90 km1%total125 km
- South Branch Yellow Medicine Riverord 2len here0.87 km1%total86 km
- Pipestone Creekord 3len here0.77 km1%total124 km
- Walnut Creekord 5len here0.76 km0%total1018 km
- Redwood Riverord 3len here0.67 km0%total166 km
3 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 44.45168, -96.09991
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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.