HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080420780

Bassin de Yellow Medicine 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 4 administrative regions : Brookings, Lincoln, Lyon, Yellow Medicine

10% lakePfafstetter: 74288580

Sub-basin area

1 737,1km²

Upstream area

1 737,1km²

Discharge

9,01m³/s

Mean elev.

399m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Minnesota River1 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Lincoln
Minnesota · United States
665.6 km²
38.2% of basin
Yellow Medicine
Minnesota · United States
615.0 km²
35.3% of basin
Lyon
Minnesota · United States
460.1 km²
26.4% of basin
Brookings
South Dakota · United States
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Martin County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
19.62 km² overlap
Northern Tallgrass Prairie
IUCN V
National Wildlife Refuge
8.30 km² overlap
Lincoln County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
7.99 km² overlap
Yellow Medicine County
IUCN VI
Waterfowl Production Area
3.15 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not Assigned
Reserve Program
2.49 km² overlap
Reinvest in Minnesota Reserve Partnership
IUCN V
Easement
2.47 km² overlap
Anderson Lake
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
2.40 km² overlap
Shaokatan
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.98 km² overlap
Yellow Medicine County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
1.96 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Grandview
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.77 km² overlap
Sioux Prairie
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.58 km² overlap
Reinvest in Minnesota Wetlands
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.56 km² overlap
Ivanhoe
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.54 km² overlap
Coot
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.41 km² overlap
Omro
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.34 km² overlap
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program I
IUCN V
Easement
1.30 km² overlap
Ash Lake
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.21 km² overlap
Bosque
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.18 km² overlap
Poposki
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.16 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Lincoln, MN
IUCN Not Assigned
Reserve Program
1.14 km² overlap
Chain-O-Sloughs
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.14 km² overlap
Yellow Medicine County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
1.13 km² overlap
Lines
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.05 km² overlap
Rost
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.01 km² overlap
Herschberger
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.98 km² overlap
Lanners
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.83 km² overlap
Prairie Dell
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.80 km² overlap
St. Leo
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.74 km² overlap
Antler
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.71 km² overlap
Legacy
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.67 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 024 distinct species · 83 237 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Yellow Medicine River : 26 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.114

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

6,7°C

Annual rain

629mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,33

Runoff

159mm/an

PET

945mm

AET

538mm

Mean slope

0,6°

Water table

29cm

Forest

Crops

82%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)