HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080342670
Bassin de Clark Fork
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 2 administrative regions : Mineral, Sanders
Sub-basin area
164,3km²
Upstream area
54 101,6km²
Discharge
611,95m³/s
Mean elev.
1 253m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Thompson River1656 km²
- Bassin de Clark Fork857 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 164.6 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
581 distinct species · 14 415 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Clark Fork : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 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°
5,0°C
Annual rain
726mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
439mm/an
PET
921mm
AET
544mm
Mean slope
16,9°
Water table
625cm
Forest
91%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)