HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080433300
Bassin de 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 : Custer
Sub-basin area
884,1km²
Upstream area
2 975,5km²
Discharge
21,01m³/s
Mean elev.
2 369m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salmon River1604 km²
- Bassin de Yankee Fork Salmon River488 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CusterIdaho · United States886.0 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds
IUCN IbWilderness
226.02 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.10 km² overlap
Conservation
IUCN VEasement
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
738 distinct species · 5 913 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Salmon River : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 129 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 24 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°
0,4°C
Annual rain
459mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
824mm
AET
391mm
Mean slope
18,8°
Water table
633cm
Forest
87%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)