Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty · gbr
Wye Valley
- Area
- 328 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1971
Overview
- Designation
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1971
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
9 701 distinct species · 350 527 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Wye Valley : 20 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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 · 0 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
121,5km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
10 975km²
Discharge in basins
128,5m³/s
Mean precip.
848mm/an
Mean T°
9,4°C
Moisture idx
0,22
Max snow
13%
Mean runoff
594mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
130m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de River Wyesub-area362,2 km²overlap166.20 km²51%
- Bassin de River Wyesub-area124,9 km²overlap103.85 km²32%
- Bassin de Mounton Brooksub-area209,5 km²overlap19.08 km²6%
- Bassin de River Monnowsub-area571,8 km²overlap17.64 km²5%
- Bassin de River Usksub-area1 315,8 km²overlap10.79 km²3%
- Bassin de River Luggsub-area1 058,7 km²overlap8.07 km²2%
- Bassin de River Severnsub-area1 209,3 km²overlap1.59 km²0%
- Bassin de Tufts Brooksub-area118,7 km²overlap0.31 km²0%
- Bassin de River Wyesub-area885,7 km²overlap0.06 km²0%
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- River Wyeord 5len here74.72 km27%total276 km
- Garren Brookord 5len here7.40 km30%total24 km
- Mounton Brookord 2len here6.97 km57%total12 km
- Anghidi Riverord 1len here6.89 km100%total7 km
- Valley Brookord 1len here5.69 km100%total6 km
- Lodgegrove Brookord 5len here5.17 km100%total5 km
- Bailey Brookord 2len here3.73 km51%total7 km
- River Luggord 4len here2.64 km3%total91 km
- Wriggle Brookord 1len here2.00 km68%total3 km
- Penarth Brookord 1len here1.54 km26%total6 km
- Mork Brookord 1len here1.27 km100%total1 km
- White Brookord 1len here1.26 km100%total1 km
3 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 51.83558, -2.63561
- 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.