HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080355350
Bassin de Buffalo 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 4 administrative regions : Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wilkin
Sub-basin area
2 716,2km²
Upstream area
2 716,3km²
Discharge
6,19m³/s
Mean elev.
350m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Clay1501.8 km²55.1% of basin
- 755.9 km²27.8% of basin
- 299.6 km²11.0% of basin
- 166.1 km²6.1% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Becker County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
36.81 km² overlap
Tamarac
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
33.84 km² overlap
Waterfowl Production Area
31.73 km² overlap
Bluestem Prairie Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
24.95 km² overlap
Hamden Slough
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
13.90 km² overlap
Reserve Program
12.08 km² overlap
Rothsay
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
9.70 km² overlap
Reserve Program
7.02 km² overlap
Barnesville
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
6.59 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Otter Tail County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
6.49 km² overlap
Reserve Program
5.00 km² overlap
Natural Area
4.84 km² overlap
Wilkin County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
3.35 km² overlap
Easement
3.13 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.70 km² overlap
Bjornson
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.62 km² overlap
Clay County
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.48 km² overlap
Beach
2.24 km² overlap
Atherton
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.12 km² overlap
Bluestem Prairie
IUCN VEasement
2.06 km² overlap
Ogema Springs
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.06 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
2.06 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
2.03 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
1.95 km² overlap
Otter Tail County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
1.93 km² overlap
Audubon Prairie Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
1.89 km² overlap
Natural Area
1.80 km² overlap
Natural Area
1.73 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.71 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
1.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 343 distinct species · 221 810 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 Buffalo River : 24 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, 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°
4,6°C
Annual rain
576mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
85mm/an
PET
874mm
AET
494mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
35cm
Forest
9%
Crops
69%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)