HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072650
Bassin de Elster Creek Drain
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 6 administrative regions : Bayside, Glen Eira, Kingston, Melbourne, Port Phillip +1
Sub-basin area
115,5km²
Upstream area
115,5km²
Discharge
0,19m³/s
Mean elev.
25m
Administrative coverage
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 37.2 km²32.2% of basin
- 31.7 km²27.4% of basin
- 17.2 km²14.9% of basin
- 16.2 km²14.0% of basin
- 2.9 km²2.5% of basin
- 1.7 km²1.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ricketts Point
IUCN IIMarine Sanctuary
0.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 043 distinct species · 221 139 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Elster Creek Drain : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
14,7°C
Annual rain
721mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
247mm/an
PET
1 090mm
AET
614mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
77cm
Forest
29%
Crops
0%
Urban
96%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)