HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080444820
Bassin de North Branch Root 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 : Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted
Sub-basin area
596,1km²
Upstream area
596,1km²
Discharge
5,82m³/s
Mean elev.
386m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 315.0 km²52.7% of basin
- 230.4 km²38.6% of basin
- 42.4 km²7.1% of basin
- Dodge9.5 km²1.6% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.65 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.46 km² overlap
Schumann
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.37 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.35 km² overlap
Easement
0.29 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.28 km² overlap
Cary Creek
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.23 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.19 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.15 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.12 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.09 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.09 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
842 distinct species · 28 294 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 North Branch Root River : 30 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
6,5°C
Annual rain
811mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
295mm/an
PET
916mm
AET
687mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
96cm
Forest
3%
Crops
65%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)