HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080014160
Bassin de McDonald 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 : Humboldt
Sub-basin area
33,5km²
Upstream area
33,6km²
Discharge
1,31m³/s
Mean elev.
173m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Humboldt31.4 km²93.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Redwood National Park
IUCN VMarine Protected Area
6.49 km² overlap
Redwood
IUCN IINational Park
4.27 km² overlap
Redwood National and State Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
4.24 km² overlap
California Coastal
IUCN VNational Monument
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 338 distinct species · 81 790 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 McDonald Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.9%, 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°
11,0°C
Annual rain
1 578mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 218mm/an
PET
901mm
AET
649mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
424cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)