Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080050800

Bassin de River Esk

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 4 administrative regions : Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, NA, Scottish Borders

Pfafstetter: 23302120

Sub-basin area

1 233km²

Upstream area

1 233km²

Discharge

37,38m³/s

Mean elev.

223m

Administrative coverage

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

30 intersecting protected areas

21 more protected areas

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 878 distinct species · 109 241 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

109 241 obs · 40 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 7 491
6 183–7 490
3 090–6 182
2 231–3 089
< 2 231

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 34 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de River Esk : 20 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 17.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
36
Interactions affichées
112
Connectance
0.178
Patrimoniales
3
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

7,5°C

Annual rain

1 056mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,43

Runoff

897mm/an

PET

591mm

AET

520mm

Mean slope

5,7°

Water table

266cm

Forest

16%

Crops

10%

Urban

0%

Protected

8%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)