National Park · aus
Yarra Ranges
- Area
- 773 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1995
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1995
- Managing authority
- AU-VIC_DEECA
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 011 distinct species · 84 253 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Yarra Ranges : 33 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 6.1%, 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 · 3 lakes · 25 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
168,7km
Lake surface here
6,74km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
4 237km²
Discharge in basins
17,1m³/s
Mean precip.
1 408mm/an
Mean T°
11,8°C
Moisture idx
0,20
Max snow
10%
Mean runoff
391mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
522m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Yarra Riversub-area1 119,2 km²overlap526.80 km²68%
- Bassin de Yarra Riversub-area1 326,1 km²overlap174.29 km²23%
- Bassin de Acheron Riversub-area731,4 km²overlap39.80 km²5%
- Bassin de Goulburn Riversub-area2 484,6 km²overlap11.08 km²1%
- Bassin de Rubicon Riversub-area356,8 km²overlap9.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Latrobe Riversub-area624,1 km²overlap6.67 km²1%
- Bassin de Thomson Riversub-area1 426,9 km²overlap2.93 km²0%
- Bassin de Tanjil River West Branchsub-area509,9 km²overlap0.67 km²0%
- Bassin de Yea Riversub-area908 km²overlap0.41 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (25, ord ≥ 4)
- Watts Riverord 4len here26.42 km64%total41 km
- Yarra Riverord 4len here22.75 km15%total155 km
- O'Shannassy Riverord 2len here16.01 km100%total16 km
- Walsh Creekord 3len here14.07 km100%total14 km
- Baker Creekord 2len here11.03 km100%total11 km
- Eighteen Mile Creekord 1len here8.10 km100%total8 km
- Clear Creekord 1len here7.00 km100%total7 km
- Deep Creekord 3len here6.96 km6%total121 km
- Bellell CREEKord 1len here6.95 km100%total7 km
- Badger Creekord 1len here6.90 km55%total13 km
- Aldermans Creekord 1len here6.89 km100%total7 km
- Wood Creekord 1len here6.41 km100%total6 km
13 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Damper Creekord 2len here6.08 km100%total6 km
- Taggerty Riverord 3len here5.20 km28%total19 km
- Maroondah Aqueductord 4len here3.71 km18%total21 km
- O'Shannassy River West Branchord 1len here3.06 km100%total3 km
- Cement Creekord 2len here2.81 km99%total3 km
- Donovan Creekord 2len here2.63 km100%total3 km
- Contention Gullyord 1len here1.94 km100%total2 km
- Armstrong Creekord 2len here1.51 km10%total15 km
- Two Mile Creekord 4len here0.87 km22%total4 km
- Mc Donald Creekord 4len here0.62 km18%total3 km
- Acheron Riverord 3len here0.52 km1%total55 km
- Upper Yarra-Silvan Conduitord 2len here0.26 km1%total22 km
- Don Riverord 1len here0.02 km0%total5 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
- -37.60993, 145.58808
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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.