Wilderness Area · USA
Shenandoah
- Area
- 333 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1976
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1976
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
990 distinct species · 13 284 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Shenandoah : 38 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 0 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
28,6km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
4 265km²
Discharge in basins
6,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 051mm/an
Mean T°
11,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,07
Max snow
4%
Mean runoff
403mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
343m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de South Fork Shenandoah Riversub-area1 555,4 km²overlap135.70 km²41%
- Bassin de Rappahannock Riversub-area2 237,3 km²overlap111.09 km²33%
- Bassin de South Riversub-area637,3 km²overlap44.56 km²13%
- Bassin de Robinson Riversub-area500,1 km²overlap26.39 km²8%
- Bassin de Rivanna Riversub-area1 995,5 km²overlap15.47 km²5%
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Big Runord 2len here5.59 km17%total32 km
- Hughes Riverord 3len here5.35 km21%total25 km
- Jeremys Runord 1len here4.90 km39%total13 km
- North Fork Thornton Riverord 2len here2.56 km22%total11 km
- Lefthand Holloword 1len here2.51 km37%total7 km
- Rose Riverord 1len here2.11 km22%total10 km
- Hazel Riverord 4len here1.89 km4%total49 km
- Piney Riverord 1len here1.28 km21%total6 km
- East Fork Dry Runord 1len here0.76 km30%total3 km
- Overall Runord 1len here0.64 km22%total3 km
- Madison Runord 1len here0.59 km8%total8 km
- Robinson Riverord 3len here0.31 km1%total60 km
2 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
- 38.60851, -78.31237
- 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.