Wilderness · usa
Silver Lake
- Area
- 441 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
0 - Managing authority
- Other or Unknown State Land ; State Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
575 distinct species · 11 233 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Silver Lake : 29 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, 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).
Hydrology5 basins · 9 lakes · 11 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
99,4km
Lake surface here
1,34km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 424km²
Discharge in basins
22,5m³/s
Mean precip.
1 257mm/an
Mean T°
5,0°C
Moisture idx
0,33
Max snow
32%
Mean runoff
832mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
575m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de West Branch Sacandaga Riversub-area842,2 km²overlap336.76 km²76%
- Bassin de West Stony Creeksub-area216,9 km²overlap54.56 km²12%
- Bassin de Sacandaga Riversub-area89 km²overlap27.65 km²6%
- Bassin de East Branch Sacandaga Riversub-area492,6 km²overlap19.87 km²5%
- Bassin de East Canada Creeksub-area757,3 km²overlap2.46 km²1%
Lakes (9, top by area)
- Spy Lakearea1,4 km²avg depth8.2 m
- Lac 1048933area0,3 km²avg depth6.7 m
- Lac 1048499area0,3 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 1048780area0,3 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lac 1048834area0,3 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 1048872area0,2 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 1048411area0,2 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 1048761area0,1 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 1048687area0,1 km²avg depth3.9 m
Rivers / streams (11, ord ≥ 4)
- West Branch Sacandaga Riverord 3len here49.11 km75%total66 km
- Hamilton Lake Streamord 2len here11.70 km79%total15 km
- North Branch West Branch Sacandaga Riverord 1len here7.73 km100%total8 km
- Piseco Lake Outletord 3len here6.50 km35%total19 km
- Sacandaga Riverord 5len here5.59 km4%total151 km
- North Branch West Stony Creekord 3len here5.42 km33%total17 km
- Abner Brookord 1len here4.76 km100%total5 km
- Jimmy Creekord 2len here4.09 km35%total12 km
- Groff Creekord 1len here2.38 km97%total2 km
- Cold Brookord 1len here2.12 km32%total7 km
- Coulombe Creekord 1len here0.01 km0%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
- 43.35851, -74.47514
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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.