World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · aus
Shark Bay, Western Australia
- Area
- 22 001 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1991
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1991
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 121 distinct species · 69 280 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Shark Bay, Western Australia : 29 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology19 basins · 11 lakes · 3 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
6,8km
Lake surface here
29,02km²
Basins crossed
19
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
10 496km²
Discharge in basins
0,6m³/s
Mean precip.
261mm/an
Mean T°
21,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,84
Mean runoff
8mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
53m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Brine Flumesub-area4 752,2 km²overlap4452.33 km²20%
- Basin #91310sub-area1 755 km²overlap1688.89 km²8%
- Basin #93310sub-area2 329,3 km²overlap658.73 km²3%
- Basin #57070sub-area1 824,1 km²overlap109.17 km²0%
- Basin #57150sub-area1 476,3 km²overlap56.98 km²0%
- Basin #57250sub-area2 463,2 km²overlap54.69 km²0%
- Basin #57030sub-area297,9 km²overlap40.83 km²0%
- Basin #56960sub-area325,4 km²overlap23.23 km²0%
- Bassin de Wooramel Riversub-area298,6 km²overlap20.03 km²0%
10 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #56990sub-area118,3 km²overlap11.70 km²0%
- Basin #57050sub-area94,4 km²overlap11.15 km²0%
- Basin #57040sub-area2 130,7 km²overlap7.39 km²0%
- Basin #57010sub-area23,1 km²overlap2.46 km²0%
- Basin #57240sub-area1 519,5 km²overlap0.95 km²0%
- Basin #57140sub-area1 684,6 km²overlap0.63 km²0%
- Basin #56970sub-area1,1 km²overlap0.51 km²0%
- Basin #56980sub-area192,9 km²overlap0.37 km²0%
- Basin #57020sub-area522,5 km²overlap0.14 km²0%
- Basin #57000sub-area269 km²overlap0.11 km²0%
Lakes (11, top by area)
- Lake #83231area8,3 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lake #83214area5,5 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lake #83225area5,1 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lake #83243area3,3 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lake #83252area1,5 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lake #83223area1,5 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lake #83226area1,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1418843area0,9 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 1418815area0,8 km²avg depth1.9 m
Rivers / streams (3, 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
- -25.98084, 113.61148
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.