HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080458980
Bassin de East Fork Des Moines 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 : Emmet, Jackson, Kossuth, Martin
Sub-basin area
867,8km²
Upstream area
867,8km²
Discharge
4,73m³/s
Mean elev.
387m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Martin400.3 km²46.0% of basin
- EmmetIowa · United States244.5 km²28.1% of basin
- KossuthIowa · United States126.5 km²14.6% of basin
- Jackson98.2 km²11.3% of basin
20 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Management Area
2.25 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.28 km² overlap
Easement
1.09 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.88 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.86 km² overlap
Ceylon
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.60 km² overlap
Birge Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.55 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.45 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.45 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.37 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.35 km² overlap
Des Belt
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.33 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.25 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.19 km² overlap
Island
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.18 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.13 km² overlap
Arzt
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.07 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.03 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
Greenwood Marsh
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
506 distinct species · 6 908 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 East Fork Des Moines River : 32 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
7,3°C
Annual rain
738mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
172mm/an
PET
952mm
AET
627mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
29cm
Forest
4%
Crops
85%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)