HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080347200
Bassin de Poplar 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 : Cook, Lake Superior
Sub-basin area
1 266,4km²
Upstream area
24 312,5km²
Discharge
280,43m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Red Cliff Creek1222 km²
- Bassin · #7080348440136 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake Superior824.9 km²65.0% of basin
- Cook395.1 km²31.1% of basin
- Lake Superior50.0 km²3.9% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Boundary Waters Canoe Area
IUCN IbWilderness
8.28 km² overlap
Natural Area
1.90 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.96 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.19 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.11 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 427 distinct species · 29 879 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Poplar River : 30 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.3%, 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°
4,3°C
Annual rain
727mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
591mm/an
PET
785mm
AET
606mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
22cm
Forest
28%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)