National Park · aus
Welford
- Area
- 1 235 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2008
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2008
- Managing authority
- AU-QLD_DES
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
375 distinct species · 11 890 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Welford : 20 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology8 basins · 0 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
226,6km
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
92 590km²
Discharge in basins
16,6m³/s
Mean precip.
317mm/an
Mean T°
22,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,83
Mean runoff
26mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
196m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Eight Mile Creeksub-area904,6 km²overlap575.44 km²47%
- Bassin de Sawyer Creeksub-area468,8 km²overlap420.16 km²34%
- Bassin de Barcoo Riversub-area308,7 km²overlap97.29 km²8%
- Bassin de Thomson Riversub-area1 123,8 km²overlap75.46 km²6%
- Bassin de Barcoo Riversub-area491 km²overlap57.37 km²5%
- Bassin de Barcoo Riversub-area12,7 km²overlap5.02 km²0%
- Bassin de Barcoo Riversub-area102,5 km²overlap4.04 km²0%
- Bassin de Yellow Mountain Creeksub-area327,3 km²overlap0.64 km²0%
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Barcoo Riverord 6len here89.99 km7%total1208 km
- Sawyer Creekord 4len here67.58 km60%total112 km
- Eight Mile Creekord 4len here34.92 km17%total207 km
- Gap Creekord 3len here28.06 km32%total88 km
- Lavender Creekord 1len here4.19 km100%total4 km
- Sandy Creekord 4len here1.87 km0%total461 km
- Bull Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal101 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
- -24.96744, 143.48058
- 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.