HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072260
Bassin de Merriman 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 2 administrative regions : Latrobe, Wellington
Sub-basin area
538,7km²
Upstream area
538,7km²
Discharge
3,23m³/s
Mean elev.
169m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 537.4 km²99.7% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.3% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Stradbroke F.F.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
34.51 km² overlap
Holey Plains
IUCN IIState Park
29.01 km² overlap
Giffard (Rifle Range) F.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
10.92 km² overlap
Willung South B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
1.43 km² overlap
Toms Cap S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.83 km² overlap
Merrimans Creek F.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.67 km² overlap
Callignee W.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.43 km² overlap
Kangaroo Swamp N.C.R.
IUCN IaNatural Features Reserve
0.31 km² overlap
Giffard H31 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Tarra-Bulga
IUCN IINational Park
0.07 km² overlap
Giffard H30 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 332 distinct species · 18 171 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Merriman Creek : 18 espèces reliées par 51 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
12,8°C
Annual rain
803mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
1 055mm
AET
661mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
334cm
Forest
82%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)