HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080069460
Bassin de Shoalwater Creek
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 : Rockhampton
Sub-basin area
434,4km²
Upstream area
434,6km²
Discharge
1,84m³/s
Mean elev.
84m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 431.8 km²99.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
21.61 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN VIMarine Park
21.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
599 distinct species · 2 186 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Shoalwater Creek : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 061mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
137mm/an
PET
1 407mm
AET
898mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
278cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)