HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080446240
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 2 administrative regions : Houston, Winona
Sub-basin area
315,3km²
Upstream area
4 296,5km²
Discharge
37,35m³/s
Mean elev.
294m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South Fork Root River757 km²
- Bassin de Money Creek323 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Houston305.3 km²96.6% of basin
- 10.7 km²3.4% of basin
16 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
6.60 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.61 km² overlap
Root River
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.97 km² overlap
Mound Prairie
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.49 km² overlap
Easement
0.97 km² overlap
Other - Perpetual
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.65 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.56 km² overlap
Mound Prairie
IUCN VState Research Area
0.51 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.40 km² overlap
7 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.31 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.21 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.13 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.10 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.09 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 167 distinct species · 13 631 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
820mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
240mm/an
PET
927mm
AET
693mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
280cm
Forest
64%
Crops
33%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)