HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072100
Bassin de Slaughterhouse 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 : East Gippsland
Sub-basin area
53,4km²
Upstream area
53,4km²
Discharge
0,34m³/s
Mean elev.
46m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 53.5 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Gippsland Lakes
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
3.93 km² overlap
Slaughterhouse Creek G.L.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
1.30 km² overlap
Jones Bay G.L.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.74 km² overlap
Swan Reach Bay G.L.R.
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.33 km² overlap
Tambo Delta - Metung G.L.R.
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Nicholson floodplain G.L.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
774 distinct species · 13 729 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 Slaughterhouse Creek : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.7%, 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°
14,2°C
Annual rain
753mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
201mm/an
PET
1 111mm
AET
640mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
237cm
Forest
65%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)