HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080447000
Bassin de South 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 2 administrative regions : Fillmore, Mower
Sub-basin area
735,2km²
Upstream area
735,3km²
Discharge
6,58m³/s
Mean elev.
376m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 677.3 km²92.0% of basin
- 59.2 km²8.0% of basin
19 intersecting protected areas
Aquatic Management Area
1.30 km² overlap
Goethite
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.23 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.50 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.34 km² overlap
Cherry Grove
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.32 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.29 km² overlap
Hatchery
0.28 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.26 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.20 km² overlap
10 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Natural Area
0.16 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.14 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.10 km² overlap
Easement
0.07 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.05 km² overlap
Nosek
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.03 km² overlap
Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Root River
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.03 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 347 distinct species · 33 917 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 South Branch Root River : 39 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
6,4°C
Annual rain
832mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
279mm/an
PET
925mm
AET
703mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
125cm
Forest
5%
Crops
61%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)