HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080371590
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 2 administrative regions : Musselshell, Yellowstone
Sub-basin area
249,3km²
Upstream area
10 446,4km²
Discharge
6,37m³/s
Mean elev.
1 121m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Musselshell River2379 km²
- Bassin de Musselshell River1039 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 248.2 km²99.3% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bull Mountains
IUCN VEasement
1.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
440 distinct species · 15 247 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 17 espèces reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 19.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
7,5°C
Annual rain
362mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 038mm
AET
315mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
755cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)