HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080352990
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
713,3km²
Upstream area
20 814,7km²
Discharge
9,96m³/s
Mean elev.
855m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Musselshell River100 km²
- Bassin de Box Elder Creek83 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 405.4 km²56.7% of basin
- 309.9 km²43.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Musselshell Breaks
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
34.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
426 distinct species · 1 767 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 : 15 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 23.2%, 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°
7,6°C
Annual rain
339mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 050mm
AET
295mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
578cm
Forest
2%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)