Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080053070

Bassin de River Wear

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 7 administrative regions : County Durham, Cumbria, Darlington, Gateshead, NA

Pfafstetter: 23303140

Sub-basin area

1 175,9km²

Upstream area

1 175,9km²

Discharge

21,23m³/s

Mean elev.

224m

Administrative coverage

7 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

6 982 distinct species · 709 009 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

709 009 obs · 39 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 68 062
54 048–68 061
18 813–54 047
10 358–18 812
< 10 358

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

Ecological tissue

Sample of 37 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 Wear : 32 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
38
Interactions affichées
75
Connectance
0.107
Patrimoniales
2
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°

7,8°C

Annual rain

804mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,23

Runoff

581mm/an

PET

596mm

AET

492mm

Mean slope

3,9°

Water table

243cm

Forest

1%

Crops

24%

Urban

23%

Protected

30%

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