HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080142440
Bassin de Meltosjoki
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 : Lapland
Sub-basin area
64,2km²
Upstream area
1 636,1km²
Discharge
28,82m³/s
Mean elev.
81m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Meltosjoki228 km²
- Bassin de Lampsijoki117 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Private Nature Reserve
0.47 km² overlap
Private Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Metsälain erityisen tärkeät elinympäristöt Lappi
IUCN Not AssignedForest habitats of special importance according to the Forest Act (OECM)
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
513 distinct species · 7 674 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Meltosjoki : 17 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 20.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
0,1°C
Annual rain
512mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
572mm/an
PET
444mm
AET
343mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
102cm
Forest
58%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)