HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080445340
Bassin de 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 1 administrative regions : Fillmore
Sub-basin area
227,9km²
Upstream area
2 557,1km²
Discharge
23,54m³/s
Mean elev.
323m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South Branch Root River735 km²
- Bassin de Root River374 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 228.4 km²100.0% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Rushford Sand Barrens
IUCN VState Research Area
0.86 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.36 km² overlap
Root River Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.31 km² overlap
Easement
0.19 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.18 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.14 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.13 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.05 km² overlap
Easement
0.04 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Aquatic Management Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
814 distinct species · 7 473 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Root River : 36 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
6,7°C
Annual rain
825mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
258mm/an
PET
941mm
AET
698mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
247cm
Forest
31%
Crops
58%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)