HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080349030
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, Golden Valley, McKenzie
Sub-basin area
1 960,9km²
Upstream area
17 542,3km²
Discharge
16,94m³/s
Mean elev.
772m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Garner Creek321 km²
- Bassin de Dantz Creek161 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1488.9 km²75.7% of basin
- Golden Valley476.5 km²24.2% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Theodore Roosevelt
IUCN IINational Park
185.83 km² overlap
Theodore Roosevelt
IUCN IbWilderness Area
42.31 km² overlap
Camel Hump
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 571 distinct species · 107 502 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 reliées par 123 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
5,9°C
Annual rain
385mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
970mm
AET
336mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
330cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)