HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080613590
Bassin de Thomson River
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 : Wellington
Sub-basin area
121,2km²
Upstream area
3 704,6km²
Discharge
43,3m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Thomson River1427 km²
- Bassin de Macalister River962 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 121.3 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Gippsland Lakes
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.75 km² overlap
Sale Common N.C.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
2.75 km² overlap
Herb Guyatt F.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
365 distinct species · 1 933 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Thomson River : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
629mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
179mm/an
PET
1 134mm
AET
537mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
16cm
Forest
12%
Crops
2%
Urban
8%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)