Wildlife Refuge · usa
Wichita Mountains
- Area
- 239 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1901
Overview
- Designation
- Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1901
- Managing authority
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 445 distinct species · 128 964 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 Wichita Mountains : 28 espèces reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.3%, 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).
Hydrology4 basins · 6 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
25,7km
Lake surface here
1,71km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
13 275km²
Discharge in basins
0,6m³/s
Mean precip.
723mm/an
Mean T°
16,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,48
Mean runoff
69mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
403m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (6, top by area)
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Panther Creekord 6len here8.45 km3%total253 km
- Deer Creekord 6len here7.08 km1%total1337 km
- Quanah Creekord 2len here3.44 km34%total10 km
- Medicine Creekord 8len here3.07 km1%total525 km
- Blue Beaver Creekord 1len here2.84 km11%total26 km
- Post Oak Creekord 3len here0.54 km0%total124 km
- Crater Creekord 1len here0.24 km2%total10 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
- 34.75393, -98.65709
- 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.