HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080432270
Bassin de Bear 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, Manistee, Wexford
Sub-basin area
518,5km²
Upstream area
518,5km²
Discharge
4,82m³/s
Mean elev.
255m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 506.1 km²97.4% of basin
- 10.5 km²2.0% of basin
- 3.1 km²0.6% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
State Forest
72.56 km² overlap
Bear Creek, Michigan
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
7.59 km² overlap
State Forest
4.50 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
1.47 km² overlap
MNRTF Parcel
IUCN VConservation Area
0.37 km² overlap
MNRTF Parcel 24
IUCN VConservation Area
0.32 km² overlap
Kollmeyer
IUCN VForest Management
0.29 km² overlap
Manistee, Michigan
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
0.27 km² overlap
Consumers Power Co.
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
99-06-0120
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.00 km² overlap
MNRTF Parcel 122
IUCN VConservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
MNRTF Parcel 150
IUCN VConservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
721 distinct species · 10 622 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Bear Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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
856mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
292mm/an
PET
886mm
AET
654mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
137cm
Forest
89%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)