HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080459780
Bassin de Silver Creek
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 : Harney
Sub-basin area
328,3km²
Upstream area
3 962,1km²
Discharge
6,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #70804585202037 km²
- Bassin de Silver Creek848 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 328.8 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Malheur
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
86.11 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
66.21 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
59.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
298 distinct species · 3 159 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Silver Creek : 28 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, 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°
7,6°C
Annual rain
262mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
69mm/an
PET
1 098mm
AET
228mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
492cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)