HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080362850
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 4 administrative regions : Musselshell, Petroleum, Rosebud, Yellowstone
Sub-basin area
864,4km²
Upstream area
13 015,1km²
Discharge
6,99m³/s
Mean elev.
933m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Musselshell River373 km²
- Bassin de Musselshell River119 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 514.7 km²59.4% of basin
- 335.0 km²38.7% of basin
- 16.0 km²1.8% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
194 distinct species · 1 289 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
360mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
31mm/an
PET
1 060mm
AET
313mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
478cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)