Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · usa
Upper Mississippi River Floodplain Wetlands
IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces972 km²Established 2010
Key facts
- Area
- 972 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 2010
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 2010
- Managing authority
- Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 670 distinct species · 160 125 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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).
RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Upper Mississippi River Floodplain Wetlands : 30 espèces reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Espèces affichées
36
Interactions affichées
65
Connectance
0.103
Patrimoniales
0
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology39 basins · 38 lakes · 76 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
444,5km
Lake surface here
23,17km²
Basins crossed
39
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
229 185km²
Discharge in basins
4 210,9m³/s
Mean precip.
839mm/an
Mean T°
7,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,12
Max snow
20%
Mean runoff
259mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
276m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Yellow Riversub-area2 059,7 km²overlap159.78 km²16%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area2 131,2 km²overlap112.92 km²12%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area1 239,3 km²overlap104.15 km²11%
- Bassin de la Crosse Riversub-area1 683,1 km²overlap71.35 km²7%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area486,7 km²overlap69.09 km²7%
- Bassin de Grant Riversub-area1 085,8 km²overlap58.31 km²6%
- Bassin de Buffalo Riversub-area1 457,7 km²overlap53.98 km²6%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area120,4 km²overlap48.52 km²5%
- Bassin de Sand Sloughsub-area225,7 km²overlap33.17 km²3%
30 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area103 km²overlap31.94 km²3%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area488,2 km²overlap26.77 km²3%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area27,5 km²overlap21.55 km²2%
- Bassin de Rush Creeksub-area239,7 km²overlap20.91 km²2%
- Bassin de Tamarack Creeksub-area348,8 km²overlap18.32 km²2%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area73,6 km²overlap15.65 km²2%
- Bassin de South Fork Whitewater Riversub-area961,4 km²overlap13.86 km²1%
- Bassin de Black Riversub-area75,6 km²overlap13.16 km²1%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area45,7 km²overlap12.24 km²1%
- Bassin de Elk Riversub-area221,6 km²overlap11.69 km²1%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area210 km²overlap11.21 km²1%
- Bassin de Garvin Brooksub-area274,7 km²overlap10.97 km²1%
- Bassin de Upper Iowa Riversub-area12,2 km²overlap8.27 km²1%
- Bassin de Mississippi Riversub-area550,3 km²overlap6.04 km²1%
- Bassin de Wapsipinicon Riversub-area845,3 km²overlap5.14 km²1%
- Bassin de Root Riversub-area315,3 km²overlap4.61 km²0%
- Bassin de Pap Sloughsub-area9,8 km²overlap4.02 km²0%
- Bassin de Wisconsin Riversub-area306,6 km²overlap3.52 km²0%
- Bassin de Sand Creeksub-area243 km²overlap3.39 km²0%
- Bassin de Turkey Riversub-area544,3 km²overlap2.93 km²0%
- Bassin de Eau Galle Riversub-area1 286,2 km²overlap2.62 km²0%
- Bassin de Plum Riversub-area769,2 km²overlap2.55 km²0%
- Bassin de Apple Riversub-area683,7 km²overlap2.49 km²0%
- Bassin de Zumbro Riversub-area315,4 km²overlap2.43 km²0%
- Bassin de Platte Riversub-area867,3 km²overlap1.93 km²0%
- Bassin de Maquoketa Riversub-area104,7 km²overlap1.67 km²0%
- Bassin de Waumandee Creeksub-area450,3 km²overlap0.63 km²0%
- Bassin de Pool Sloughsub-area162,7 km²overlap0.34 km²0%
- Bassin de Trempealeau Riversub-area1 758,6 km²overlap0.23 km²0%
- Bassin de Sand Sloughsub-area0,1 km²overlap0.12 km²0%
Lakes (38, top by area)
- Truedale Lakearea8,9 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Lake #10516area2,2 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lower Brown Lakearea2 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Blakes Lakearea1,3 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Fish Trap Lakearea1,1 km²avg depth4.2 m
- Round Lakearea1,1 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1051867area1 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 1048367area1 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1047050area0,9 km²avg depth2.9 m
29 more lakes
- Lac 1051771area0,7 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Lac 1051644area0,7 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1051783area0,6 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1047815area0,6 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1049628area0,5 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1051910area0,4 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1049438area0,3 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1051759area0,3 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 1049713area0,3 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 1046489area0,3 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1050830area0,3 km²avg depth4.2 m
- Lac 1047809area0,3 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1047131area0,2 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1045650area0,2 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 1049399area0,2 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1049023area0,2 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 1052702area0,2 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1049516area0,2 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1050928area0,2 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 1051180area0,2 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 1046605area0,2 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lac 1048630area0,2 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1050218area0,1 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 1045869area0,1 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 1047036area0,1 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1046619area0,1 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1049155area0,1 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1048483area0,1 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 1050217area0,1 km²avg depth2.1 m
Rivers / streams (76, ord ≥ 4)
- Mississippi Riverord 9len here221.20 km4%total5243 km
- Sand Sloughord 2len here16.27 km99%total16 km
- Cassville Sloughord 7len here10.03 km78%total13 km
- Stateline Sloughord 1len here9.88 km45%total22 km
- Potosi Canalord 7len here9.66 km100%total10 km
- Harpers Sloughord 2len here8.86 km29%total31 km
- Black Riverord 7len here8.14 km1%total934 km
- Winneshiek Sloughord 7len here7.31 km82%total9 km
- Smallpox Creekord 1len here7.23 km27%total27 km
- Grant Riverord 7len here6.96 km8%total87 km
- By Golly Creekord 1len here6.16 km63%total10 km
- Halfway Creekord 2len here6.13 km24%total25 km
64 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Pomme de Terre Sloughord 7len here6.09 km100%total6 km
- Tank Creekord 1len here5.79 km41%total14 km
- Furnace Branchord 7len here5.07 km49%total10 km
- Garvin Brookord 3len here4.59 km19%total25 km
- Middle Sloughord 1len here4.52 km83%total5 km
- Rush Creekord 4len here4.36 km1%total669 km
- Buffalo Riverord 4len here4.34 km1%total630 km
- East Indian Creekord 3len here4.30 km6%total78 km
- Rock Creekord 8len here4.22 km0%total2074 km
- Upper Iowa Riverord 4len here3.91 km1%total284 km
- Wapsipinicon Riverord 4len here3.91 km1%total402 km
- Straight Sloughord 7len here3.67 km11%total33 km
- Jack Oak Sloughord 7len here3.38 km50%total7 km
- Coon Creekord 6len here3.36 km0%total697 km
- Big Trout Creekord 7len here3.25 km20%total16 km
- Deer Creekord 6len here3.23 km0%total1337 km
- Pine Creekord 4len here3.20 km1%total522 km
- Buffalo Sloughord 2len here3.11 km23%total14 km
- Bellevue Sloughord 7len here3.03 km87%total3 km
- Wyalusing Sloughord 2len here2.95 km30%total10 km
- Wisconsin Riverord 7len here2.93 km0%total962 km
- Pap Sloughord 7len here2.65 km52%total5 km
- Pammel Creekord 1len here2.61 km34%total8 km
- Molo Sloughord 1len here2.47 km100%total2 km
- Broken Arrow Sloughord 7len here2.44 km57%total4 km
- Mc Cartney Branchord 1len here2.31 km30%total8 km
- Lock Canal No. 13ord 3len here2.26 km48%total5 km
- Zumbro Riverord 4len here2.23 km3%total89 km
- Lafayette Sloughord 1len here2.10 km94%total2 km
- Little Menominee Riverord 1len here1.99 km15%total13 km
- Pleasant Creekord 3len here1.88 km9%total20 km
- Menominee Riverord 2len here1.84 km15%total12 km
- Little Platte Riverord 4len here1.70 km1%total136 km
- Miners Creekord 1len here1.63 km23%total7 km
- Hughlett Branchord 3len here1.59 km18%total9 km
- Plum Riverord 3len here1.54 km3%total48 km
- Waumandee Creekord 3len here0.97 km2%total58 km
- Whitewater Riverord 4len here0.91 km0%total425 km
- Spruce Creekord 3len here0.84 km1%total67 km
- Brewery Creekord 7len here0.82 km4%total19 km
- Copper Creekord 4len here0.73 km1%total104 km
- Mormon Creekord 3len here0.73 km3%total23 km
- Maquoketa Riverord 4len here0.70 km0%total185 km
- Dresbach Sloughord 7len here0.66 km10%total7 km
- Spring Couleeord 3len here0.64 km5%total13 km
- Sugar Creekord 6len here0.59 km0%total1414 km
- St. Paul Sloughord 7len here0.53 km46%total1 km
- Buck Creekord 5len here0.49 km0%total589 km
- Chipmunk Couleeord 1len here0.47 km7%total7 km
- Apple Riverord 5len here0.46 km0%total177 km
- Riesch Creekord 1len here0.44 km12%total4 km
- Crooked Sloughord 7len here0.43 km16%total3 km
- Chippewa Riverord 6len here0.38 km0%total654 km
- Lake Peosta Channelord 7len here0.32 km7%total4 km
- Mill Creekord 7len here0.31 km0%total1839 km
- Deadmans Sloughord 7len here0.27 km10%total3 km
- Ambrough Sloughord 1len here0.27 km3%total9 km
- Cedar Creekord 6len here0.11 km0%total2026 km
- Gilmore Creekord 2len here0.08 km0%total19 km
- Leitner Creekord 1len here0.07 km2%total3 km
- Trempealeau Riverord 4len here0.01 km0%total112 km
- Marais de Saint Ferioleord 2len here≈ tangenttotal10 km
- East Channel Mississippi Riverord 7len here≈ tangenttotal3 km
- Spring Creekord 5len here≈ tangenttotal2668 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
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- Centroid
- 44.40864, -92.04874
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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.