Marine Protected Area · usa
Pascagoula River Marsh Coastal Preserve
- Area
- 87 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation ; Other or Unknown State Land
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 321 distinct species · 49 674 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Pascagoula River Marsh Coastal Preserve : 25 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 3 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
35,6km
Lake surface here
2,24km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
21 776km²
Discharge in basins
26,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 622mm/an
Mean T°
19,3°C
Moisture idx
0,17
Mean runoff
757mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
14m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Pascagoula Riverord 4len here10.28 km46%total23 km
- West Pascagoula Riverord 6len here8.06 km100%total8 km
- Kings Bayouord 3len here4.08 km100%total4 km
- Long Bayouord 1len here3.92 km61%total6 km
- Bluff Creekord 3len here2.59 km7%total38 km
- Paige Bayouord 3len here2.02 km100%total2 km
- Bayou Castelleord 2len here1.78 km32%total6 km
- Poticaw Bayouord 6len here1.58 km12%total14 km
- John's Bayouord 1len here1.26 km51%total2 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
- 30.42242, -88.59186
- 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.