HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080048790
Bassin de Ferring Rife
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 1 administrative regions : West Sussex
Sub-basin area
29,5km²
Upstream area
29,5km²
Discharge
0,44m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- West SussexEngland · United Kingdom27.6 km²93.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
South Downs
IUCN VNational Park
5.31 km² overlap
Climping Beach
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.13 km² overlap
West Beach
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 925 distinct species · 25 467 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Bassin de Ferring Rife : 40 espèces reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
10,1°C
Annual rain
728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
424mm/an
PET
727mm
AET
533mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
49cm
Forest
0%
Crops
33%
Urban
75%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)