HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080402070
Bassin de Salmon 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, Lemhi
Sub-basin area
329,6km²
Upstream area
13 492,4km²
Discharge
72,37m³/s
Mean elev.
1 719m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080406690144 km²
- Bassin de Salmon River73 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LemhiIdaho · United States330.0 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
695 distinct species · 8 698 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Salmon River : 23 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, 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°
3,8°C
Annual rain
343mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
160mm/an
PET
955mm
AET
301mm
Mean slope
17,0°
Water table
800cm
Forest
63%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)