HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080365230
Bassin de Aroostook 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 1 administrative regions : Aroostook
Sub-basin area
918,3km²
Upstream area
4 346km²
Discharge
86,67m³/s
Mean elev.
217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Machias River860 km²
- Bassin de Scpopan Stream304 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 920.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salmon Brook Lake Bog
IUCN VEcological Reserve
3.91 km² overlap
Salmon Brook Lake Bog
IUCN Not AssignedLake
0.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
999 distinct species · 11 692 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Aroostook River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.3%, 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°
3,4°C
Annual rain
952mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
667mm/an
PET
790mm
AET
635mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
104cm
Forest
92%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)