HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080319430
Bassin de Big Muddy 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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Daniels, Division No. 2, Sheridan
Sub-basin area
2 225,3km²
Upstream area
4 603,2km²
Discharge
2,53m³/s
Mean elev.
711m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Big Muddy Creek1860 km²
- Bassin de West Beaver Creek518 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Sheridan1777.5 km²79.6% of basin
- 454.5 km²20.4% of basin
- Division No. 20.2 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Sheridan County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
2.78 km² overlap
Waterfowl Production Area
0.87 km² overlap
Daniels County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
0.43 km² overlap
Medicine Lake
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
556 distinct species · 24 589 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Big Muddy Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.8%, 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°
4,5°C
Annual rain
334mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
45mm/an
PET
928mm
AET
295mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
251cm
Forest
0%
Crops
64%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)