HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080398200
Bassin de Cedar Run
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 4 administrative regions : Benzie, Grand Traverse, Lake Michigan, Leelanau
Sub-basin area
1 437,6km²
Upstream area
1 437,6km²
Discharge
12,36m³/s
Mean elev.
195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake Michigan909.7 km²63.1% of basin
- 491.5 km²34.1% of basin
- 23.5 km²1.6% of basin
- 16.1 km²1.1% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
64.65 km² overlap
Sleeping Bear Dunes
IUCN VNational Lakeshore
52.18 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
41.97 km² overlap
Sleeping Bear Dunes
IUCN IbWilderness Area
36.21 km² overlap
State Forest
14.67 km² overlap
Research Area
3.16 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.11 km² overlap
Palmer Woods
IUCN VForest Reserve
2.90 km² overlap
Cedar River
IUCN VPreserve
1.03 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Preserve
0.73 km² overlap
Houdek Dunes
IUCN VNatural Area
0.60 km² overlap
Clay Cliffs
IUCN VNatural Area
0.45 km² overlap
Krumwiede
IUCN VForest Reserve
0.44 km² overlap
Swanson
IUCN VPreserve
0.34 km² overlap
Ansorge Solon Swamp
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.33 km² overlap
Leugers at the Narrows
IUCN VNatural Area
0.27 km² overlap
Teichner
IUCN VPreserve
0.17 km² overlap
Mebert Creek
IUCN VPreserve
0.17 km² overlap
Whaleback
IUCN VNatural Area
0.16 km² overlap
Preserve
0.15 km² overlap
Greeno
IUCN VPreserve
0.09 km² overlap
89-06-0494
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
03-45-0078
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
03-45-0017
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Clay Cliffs
IUCN VNatural Area
0.02 km² overlap
01-45-0076
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
96-06-0443
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
05-45-0086
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
01-45-0074
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
01-45-0073
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 185 distinct species · 201 579 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 Cedar Run : 27 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
822mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
284mm/an
PET
852mm
AET
629mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
94cm
Forest
29%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)