Wilderness Area · USA
Selawik
- Area
- 980 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1980
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1980
- Managing authority
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
93 distinct species · 168 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Selawik : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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 · 2 lakes · 2 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
31,5km
Lake surface here
0,24km²
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
24 633km²
Discharge in basins
36,5m³/s
Mean precip.
264mm/an
Mean T°
-6,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,23
Max snow
63%
Mean runoff
398mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
70m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Kugarak Riversub-area2 663 km²overlap446.72 km²46%
- Bassin de Nuleargowik Riversub-area1 105,8 km²overlap321.56 km²33%
- Bassin de Selawik Riversub-area828,6 km²overlap200.63 km²20%
- Bassin de Kobuk Riversub-area1 560,2 km²overlap8.40 km²1%
- Bassin de Niaktuvik Creeksub-area337 km²overlap2.47 km²0%
- Bassin de Kobuk Riversub-area765,1 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
- Bassin de Kobuk Riversub-area404,2 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (2, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 66.90974, -158.63142
- 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.