HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080076090
Bassin de Truckee Canal
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 : Churchill, Lyon, Storey, Washoe
Sub-basin area
884,3km²
Upstream area
884,4km²
Discharge
0,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 426m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 607.3 km²68.6% of basin
- Lyon262.4 km²29.6% of basin
- 9.1 km²1.0% of basin
- 6.4 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Fernley
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
21.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
588 distinct species · 11 307 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Truckee Canal : 21 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 19.3%, 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°
10,1°C
Annual rain
160mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 290mm
AET
139mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
871cm
Forest
13%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)