Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080052780

Bassin de River Almond

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 11 administrative regions : City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Falkirk, Midlothian +6

Coastal basin 3% lakePfafstetter: 23302709

Sub-basin area

2 398,1km²

Upstream area

2 398,1km²

Discharge

1,38m³/s

Mean elev.

151m

Administrative coverage

11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 more
  • NA6.9 km² · 0.3%
  • South Lanarkshire6.1 km² · 0.3%
  • Clackmannanshire0.3 km² · 0.0%

30 intersecting protected areas

21 more protected areas

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

Species present

12 036 distinct species · 1 943 283 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 943 283 obs · 72 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 160 381
44 908–160 380
26 880–44 907
17 948–26 879
< 17 948

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 Almond : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 122 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 20.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
35
Interactions affichées
122
Connectance
0.205
Patrimoniales
1
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°

7,9°C

Annual rain

852mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,28

Runoff

674mm/an

PET

590mm

AET

492mm

Mean slope

3,0°

Water table

152cm

Forest

3%

Crops

44%

Urban

17%

Protected

7%

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