HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080397780
Bassin de Ruby 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 : Beaverhead, Madison
Sub-basin area
2 634km²
Upstream area
2 634km²
Discharge
11,62m³/s
Mean elev.
2 085m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Madison2605.8 km²98.7% of basin
- 34.1 km²1.3% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Ruby Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
74.18 km² overlap
Us-Mt-137-2
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
12.87 km² overlap
Axolotl Lakes
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
12.01 km² overlap
Us-Mt-137-6
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.23 km² overlap
Wilderness Study Area
2.21 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Madison, MT
IUCN VConservation Easement
1.70 km² overlap
Us-Mt-137-3
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.28 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.03 km² overlap
Us-Mt-137-5
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.64 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Cottonwood Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.49 km² overlap
Us-Mt-137-4
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.31 km² overlap
Us-Mt-137-8
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.17 km² overlap
Us-Mt-137-7
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 515 distinct species · 25 556 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Ruby River : 24 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.6%, 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°
2,7°C
Annual rain
432mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
140mm/an
PET
845mm
AET
373mm
Mean slope
9,7°
Water table
469cm
Forest
43%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)