HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080359580

Bassin de Sheyenne 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 : Cass, Ransom, Richland

Pfafstetter: 71226931

Sub-basin area

1 066,5km²

Upstream area

13 662,3km²

Discharge

17,39m³/s

Mean elev.

303m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Sheyenne River713 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Sheyenne River235 km²
Bassin de Sheyenne River128 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Richland
North Dakota · United States
381.5 km²
35.7% of basin
Cass
North Dakota · United States
359.2 km²
33.6% of basin
Ransom
North Dakota · United States
328.7 km²
30.7% of basin

8 intersecting protected areas

Richland County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
16.00 km² overlap
Ransom County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
12.79 km² overlap
Ransom County
IUCN VI
Waterfowl Production Area
2.83 km² overlap
Mirror
IUCN V
Pool
2.26 km² overlap
Pigeon Point Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
2.25 km² overlap
Sheyenne Delta Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
1.26 km² overlap
Sheyenne Springs
IUCN Ia
Research Natural Area
0.23 km² overlap
Fox Run Conservancy Land
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.00 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 589 distinct species · 83 021 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 34 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Sheyenne River : 25 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.146

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

5,3°C

Annual rain

504mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,45

Runoff

75mm/an

PET

915mm

AET

435mm

Mean slope

0,2°

Water table

15cm

Forest

Crops

77%

Urban

Protected

49%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)