HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080370200
Bassin de Grand Union Canal
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 : NA
Sub-basin area
30,2km²
Upstream area
646km²
Discharge
7,43m³/s
Mean elev.
72m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Avon349 km²
- Bassin de River Sowe267 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NAEngland · United Kingdom30.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Oakwood and Blacklow Spinney
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Guy's Cliffe
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 937 distinct species · 59 247 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Grand Union Canal : 17 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
622mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
361mm/an
PET
679mm
AET
504mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
67cm
Forest
0%
Crops
41%
Urban
40%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)