HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080340280
Bassin de Little Missouri 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 3 administrative regions : Billings, Dunn, McKenzie
Sub-basin area
2 272,3km²
Upstream area
22 028km²
Discharge
14,07m³/s
Mean elev.
722m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Beaver Creek2214 km²
- Bassin de Little Missouri River1961 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1670.3 km²73.3% of basin
- 370.5 km²16.3% of basin
- 237.8 km²10.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Theodore Roosevelt
IUCN IINational Park
95.48 km² overlap
Theodore Roosevelt
IUCN IbWilderness Area
79.70 km² overlap
Killdeer Mountains
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
28.28 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
13.38 km² overlap
Lost Bridge
IUCN VConservation Easement
1.54 km² overlap
Two Top And Big Top Mesas
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 053 distinct species · 35 595 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Little Missouri River : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
5,8°C
Annual rain
392mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
957mm
AET
342mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
399cm
Forest
22%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)