HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080074940
Bassin de Rush 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 4 administrative regions : Madera, Mineral, Mono, Tuolumne
Sub-basin area
2 041km²
Upstream area
2 041km²
Discharge
8,16m³/s
Mean elev.
2 363m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1748.6 km²85.6% of basin
- Mineral289.8 km²14.2% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.0% of basin
18 intersecting protected areas
Mono Lake Tufa
IUCN VState Reserve
191.47 km² overlap
Ansel Adams
IUCN IbWilderness Area
154.26 km² overlap
Hoover
IUCN IbWilderness
114.82 km² overlap
Granite Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
50.98 km² overlap
Mount Biedeman
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
43.98 km² overlap
Excelsior
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
38.04 km² overlap
Harvey Monroe Hall
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
14.96 km² overlap
Owens River Headwaters
IUCN IbWilderness
14.83 km² overlap
Yosemite National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
4.51 km² overlap
9 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Yosemite
IUCN IbWilderness Area
4.49 km² overlap
Yosemite
IUCN IINational Park
4.21 km² overlap
Bodie
IUCN VWilderness Study Area
3.81 km² overlap
Wilderness
2.26 km² overlap
Mormon Meadows
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.60 km² overlap
Bodie Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.26 km² overlap
Upper Lundy
IUCN VLake
0.20 km² overlap
Wilderness Land Trust
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.16 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 233 distinct species · 481 454 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 Rush Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
5,0°C
Annual rain
399mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
216mm/an
PET
969mm
AET
324mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
460cm
Forest
49%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)