HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080346750
Bassin de Musselshell 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 2 administrative regions : Garfield, Petroleum
Sub-basin area
306,8km²
Upstream area
23 425,3km²
Discharge
11,23m³/s
Mean elev.
802m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 202.9 km²65.9% of basin
- 104.8 km²34.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Charles M. Russell
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
60.43 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
27.11 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
10.22 km² overlap
Montana
IUCN VIState Trust Lands
2.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 221 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 Musselshell River : 27 espèces reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
7,1°C
Annual rain
329mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 039mm
AET
288mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
639cm
Forest
20%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)