Wilderness Area · can
Polletts Cove - Aspy Fault Wilderness Area
- Area
- 272 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1999
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1999
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
467 distinct species · 1 755 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Polletts Cove - Aspy Fault Wilderness Area : 40 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 109 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.5%, 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).
Hydrology1 basins · 2 lakes · 18 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
61,5km
Lake surface here
0,44km²
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
3 229km²
Discharge in basins
0,2m³/s
Mean precip.
1 408mm/an
Mean T°
4,4°C
Moisture idx
0,55
Max snow
45%
Mean runoff
1 224mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
287m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (18, ord ≥ 4)
- Polletts Cove Riverord 3len here12.04 km92%total13 km
- Salmon Riverord 2len here10.64 km85%total13 km
- Red Riverord 2len here4.95 km55%total9 km
- North Branch Brookord 1len here4.85 km92%total5 km
- Lockhart Brookord 2len here4.76 km100%total5 km
- Blair Riverord 3len here4.29 km66%total7 km
- Wilkie Brookord 1len here3.60 km52%total7 km
- Pine Brookord 1len here3.29 km61%total5 km
- Lower Delaneys Brookord 1len here2.62 km100%total3 km
- Archies Brookord 1len here2.53 km90%total3 km
- Otter Brookord 1len here2.20 km73%total3 km
- Eastern Brookord 1len here1.64 km90%total2 km
6 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
- 46.92082, -60.59763
- 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.