National Wildlife Refuge · usa
Ouachita
- Area
- 586 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1935
Overview
- Designation
- National Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1935
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
544 distinct species · 5 684 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Ouachita : 32 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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 · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
55,3km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 533km²
Discharge in basins
12,1m³/s
Mean precip.
1 320mm/an
Mean T°
15,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,01
Max snow
2%
Mean runoff
436mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
301m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Ouachita Riversub-area1 532,6 km²overlap224.18 km²38%
- Bassin de Fourche LaFave Riversub-area113,2 km²overlap107.49 km²18%
- Bassin de Fourche LaFave Riversub-area114,9 km²overlap69.13 km²12%
- Bassin de Fourche LaFave Riversub-area269,5 km²overlap64.69 km²11%
- Bassin de Irons Forksub-area441,9 km²overlap60.00 km²10%
- Bassin de Fourche LaFave Riversub-area288,2 km²overlap48.25 km²8%
- Bassin de Fourche LaFave Riversub-area131,6 km²overlap12.34 km²2%
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- Irons Forkord 3len here18.44 km23%total80 km
- Fiddlers Creekord 2len here10.67 km54%total20 km
- Smith Creekord 3len here9.30 km5%total185 km
- Fourche LaFave Riverord 4len here8.02 km3%total313 km
- Rainy Creekord 2len here4.99 km37%total14 km
- Harris Creekord 5len here1.88 km2%total82 km
- Big Brushy Creekord 2len here1.02 km5%total19 km
- Ouachita Riverord 6len here0.96 km0%total1297 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
- 34.76463, -93.71431
- 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.