HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080417040
Bassin de Bowens Creek
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 3 administrative regions : Benzie, Lake Michigan, Manistee
Sub-basin area
734,6km²
Upstream area
734,6km²
Discharge
6,63m³/s
Mean elev.
186m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake Michigan598.1 km²81.2% of basin
- 75.5 km²10.3% of basin
- 62.6 km²8.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Nature Preserve
22.93 km² overlap
Green Point Dunes
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.97 km² overlap
Fruithaven
IUCN VForest Preserve
0.72 km² overlap
Upper Herring
IUCN VLake
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 183 distinct species · 132 568 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 Bowens Creek : 23 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.4%, 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°
7,2°C
Annual rain
828mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
285mm/an
PET
829mm
AET
630mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
52cm
Forest
18%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)