National Park · can
Wood Buffalo National Park Of Canada
- Area
- 9 279 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1922
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1922
- Managing authority
- Parks Canada Agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
425 distinct species · 2 842 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Wood Buffalo National Park Of Canada : 31 espèces reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology18 basins · 50 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
734,1km
Lake surface here
586,23km²
Basins crossed
18
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
918 307km²
Discharge in basins
144,0m³/s
Mean precip.
346mm/an
Mean T°
-3,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,35
Max snow
54%
Mean runoff
37mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
255m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Sass Riversub-area2 701,3 km²overlap2293.78 km²25%
- Bassin de Nyarling Riversub-area2 035,9 km²overlap1739.31 km²19%
- Bassin de Copp Riversub-area1 385,6 km²overlap1222.52 km²13%
- Bassin de Buffalo Riversub-area2 211 km²overlap1004.35 km²11%
- Bassin de Little Buffalo Riversub-area948 km²overlap701.08 km²8%
- Bassin de Buffalo Riversub-area1 596,7 km²overlap434.49 km²5%
- Bassin de Snake Creeksub-area923,8 km²overlap393.29 km²4%
- Bassin de Buffalo Riversub-area385,2 km²overlap387.36 km²4%
- Bassin de Buffalo Riversub-area269,6 km²overlap271.15 km²3%
9 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Seton Creeksub-area558,5 km²overlap258.57 km²3%
- Bassin de Little Buffalo Riversub-area414,8 km²overlap208.41 km²2%
- Bassin de Yates Riversub-area287,2 km²overlap178.70 km²2%
- Bassin de Little Buffalo Riversub-area280,1 km²overlap93.68 km²1%
- Bassin de Little Buffalo Riversub-area330,5 km²overlap64.03 km²1%
- Bassin de Birch Creeksub-area536,1 km²overlap56.92 km²1%
- Bassin de Whitesand Riversub-area3 691,3 km²overlap39.08 km²0%
- Bassin de Sandy Riversub-area540,6 km²overlap0.16 km²0%
- Bassin de Little Buffalo Riversub-area933,2 km²overlap0.11 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Buffaloarea553,2 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Copp Lakearea74 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lake #4628area14,4 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Buchan Lakearea13,4 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lake #59870area9,5 km²avg depth11.2 m
- Lake #59516area6,5 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lake #61058area4,7 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Hawkes Lakearea4,7 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lake #59639area4,6 km²avg depth4.1 m
41 more lakes
- Lake #61284area4,5 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lake #60041area3,8 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lake #61184area3,3 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lake #61166area3,2 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Sandy Lakearea2,9 km²avg depth10.0 m
- Lake #61272area2,9 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lake #61095area2,8 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lake #61088area2,8 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lake #61246area2,6 km²avg depth4.2 m
- Lake #61251area2,3 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Needle Lakearea2,3 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lake #59623area2,2 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Skillet Lakearea2,1 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Higgins Lakearea1,8 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lake #61240area1,8 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lake #60060area1,7 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lake #60840area1,7 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lake #61042area1,6 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lake #61267area1,5 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lake #59879area1,5 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lake #58819area1,3 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake #59370area1,1 km²avg depth9.4 m
- Lake #59824area1 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lake #61190area1 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lake #59628area1 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 646508area0,9 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 646589area0,9 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 633938area0,9 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 628537area0,9 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 646219area0,8 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 642143area0,8 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 640994area0,7 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 644345area0,7 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 639092area0,7 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 646233area0,7 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 627726area0,7 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 630377area0,7 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 645272area0,7 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 645378area0,7 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 646983area0,7 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 633696area0,7 km²avg depth2.4 m
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Buffalo Riverord 6len here177.23 km20%total886 km
- Nyarling Riverord 4len here139.91 km84%total166 km
- Little Buffalo Riverord 5len here126.68 km17%total754 km
- Sass Riverord 4len here107.76 km100%total107 km
- Snake Creekord 3len here54.85 km55%total99 km
- Seton Creekord 3len here27.53 km100%total27 km
- Preble Creekord 3len here27.09 km57%total48 km
- Klewi Riverord 3len here22.18 km100%total22 km
- Yates Riverord 4len here16.02 km5%total349 km
- Tourangeau Creekord 3len here14.02 km17%total83 km
- Whitesand Riverord 4len here13.77 km4%total315 km
- Copp Riverord 1len here7.05 km26%total27 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
- 60.34463, -114.23179
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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.