HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080405130
Bassin de Chippewa 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 : Chippewa, Rusk
Sub-basin area
610,6km²
Upstream area
4 704,4km²
Discharge
51,84m³/s
Mean elev.
361m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Thornapple River546 km²
- Bassin de Chippewa River438 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Rusk451.3 km²73.7% of basin
- Chippewa160.7 km²26.3% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Potato Creek
IUCN VWildlife Area
3.81 km² overlap
Natural Area
2.91 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.65 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.62 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Rusk, WI
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.28 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.28 km² overlap
Statewide Habitat Areas
IUCN VHabitat Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 308 distinct species · 20 129 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Chippewa River : 29 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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
830mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
313mm/an
PET
933mm
AET
700mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
58cm
Forest
90%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)