HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080365720
Bassin de Little Heart 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 : Burleigh, Morton
Sub-basin area
690,3km²
Upstream area
484 668,8km²
Discharge
830,03m³/s
Mean elev.
577m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Missouri River1685 km²
- Bassin de Heart River194 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Morton657.6 km²95.0% of basin
- 34.5 km²5.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Oahe
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
5.13 km² overlap
Morton County
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.58 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
682 distinct species · 43 481 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Little Heart River : 26 espèces reliées par 118 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.7%, 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°
5,4°C
Annual rain
418mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
945mm
AET
364mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
261cm
Forest
5%
Crops
46%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)