HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080316140
Bassin de Milk 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 : Blaine
Sub-basin area
50,3km²
Upstream area
18 763,3km²
Discharge
8m³/s
Mean elev.
826m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lodge Creek2836 km²
- Bassin de Milk River2481 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Blaine50.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
114 distinct species · 1 227 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Milk River : 22 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.3%, 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°
5,6°C
Annual rain
335mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
961mm
AET
294mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
353cm
Forest
0%
Crops
44%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)