National Wildlife Refuge · usa
Wheeler
- Area
- 103 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1938
Overview
- Designation
- National Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1938
- Managing authority
- Tennessee Valley Authority ; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 969 distinct species · 186 354 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Wheeler : 28 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 18 lakes · 10 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
53,0km
Lake surface here
3,19km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
70 415km²
Discharge in basins
934,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 424mm/an
Mean T°
15,3°C
Moisture idx
0,08
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
677mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
208m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Tennessee Riversub-area136,7 km²overlap27.15 km²26%
- Bassin de Huntsville Spring Branchsub-area415,5 km²overlap17.05 km²17%
- Bassin de Limestone Creeksub-area749,7 km²overlap16.81 km²16%
- Bassin de Flint Creeksub-area1 193 km²overlap14.44 km²14%
- Bassin de Mill Creeksub-area117,3 km²overlap12.41 km²12%
- Bassin de Tennessee Riversub-area809,7 km²overlap5.60 km²5%
- Bassin de Tennessee Riversub-area16 km²overlap4.14 km²4%
- Bassin de Tennessee Riversub-area603,4 km²overlap3.78 km²4%
- Bassin de Tennessee Riversub-area255,3 km²overlap1.87 km²2%
Lakes (18, top by area)
- Lake #9383area13,5 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Beaver Lake (historical)area6,2 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lake #13115area3,8 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1061476area0,9 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 1061423area0,8 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1061477area0,6 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 1061433area0,5 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1061383area0,3 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 1061384area0,3 km²avg depth3.5 m
9 more lakes
- Lac 1061494area0,3 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 1061491area0,3 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1061484area0,3 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 1061496area0,2 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1061490area0,2 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1061515area0,2 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 1061462area0,2 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1061495area0,2 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1061459area0,1 km²avg depth2.0 m
Rivers / streams (10, ord ≥ 4)
- Indian Creekord 7len here13.62 km1%total2180 km
- Flint Creekord 7len here10.95 km7%total155 km
- Huntsville Spring Branchord 3len here7.85 km29%total27 km
- Beaverdam Creekord 7len here6.54 km3%total200 km
- Tennessee Riverord 8len here6.51 km0%total1510 km
- Limestone Creekord 4len here2.91 km2%total132 km
- Blackwell Runord 7len here1.70 km47%total4 km
- Withers Spring Branchord 1len here1.17 km32%total4 km
- Piney Creekord 6len here0.93 km0%total369 km
- Barren Fork Creekord 1len here0.80 km26%total3 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
- 34.63147, -86.68433
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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.