HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072670
Bassin de Stony 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 5 administrative regions : Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Port Phillip
Sub-basin area
24,7km²
Upstream area
5 464,4km²
Discharge
63,55m³/s
Mean elev.
22m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Deep Creek1414 km²
- Bassin de Yarra River291 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.8 km²60.0% of basin
- 5.8 km²23.5% of basin
- 2.7 km²10.9% of basin
- 1.1 km²4.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 167 distinct species · 230 426 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Stony Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
14,8°C
Annual rain
612mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
210mm/an
PET
1 104mm
AET
522mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
67cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
100%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)