Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080029870

Bassin de Kadalundi Puzha

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 3 administrative regions : Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad

Coastal basinPfafstetter: 45403310

Sub-basin area

1 440,2km²

Upstream area

1 440,2km²

Discharge

10,28m³/s

Mean elev.

81m

Administrative coverage

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Western Ghats

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    27.20 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 517 distinct species · 158 331 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

158 331 obs · 40 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 32 935
8 405–32 934
3 026–8 404
2 111–3 025
< 2 111

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

Ecological tissue

Sample of 31 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 Kadalundi Puzha : 24 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
32
Interactions affichées
53
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°

27,2°C

Annual rain

2 872mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,47

Runoff

1 806mm/an

PET

1 509mm

AET

1 114mm

Mean slope

4,7°

Water table

208cm

Forest

51%

Crops

66%

Urban

54%

Protected

2%

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