HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080412740
Bassin de South Fork 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 1 administrative regions : Valley
Sub-basin area
927,7km²
Upstream area
928,1km²
Discharge
15,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 946m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ValleyIdaho · United States929.8 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Back Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
5.34 km² overlap
Phoebe Meadows
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
4.06 km² overlap
Needles
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 236 distinct species · 9 139 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 South Fork Salmon River : 27 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
2,1°C
Annual rain
650mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
526mm/an
PET
879mm
AET
523mm
Mean slope
17,4°
Water table
649cm
Forest
88%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)