HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080388920
Bassin de Yellowstone 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 : Park, Sweet Grass
Sub-basin area
1 020,3km²
Upstream area
12 813,7km²
Discharge
101,72m³/s
Mean elev.
1 582m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shields River2199 km²
- Bassin de Yellowstone River528 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 556.1 km²54.4% of basin
- 466.6 km²45.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Absaroka-Beartooth
IUCN IbWilderness
17.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
642 distinct species · 7 940 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Yellowstone River : 27 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
449mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
252mm/an
PET
935mm
AET
387mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
302cm
Forest
30%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)