HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080460540

Bassin de Wisconsin 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 3 administrative regions : Iowa, Richland, Sauk

2% lakePfafstetter: 74287435

Sub-basin area

1 183,2km²

Upstream area

26 316,1km²

Discharge

246,4m³/s

Mean elev.

288m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Mill Creek482 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Black Earth Creek434 km²
Bassin de Wisconsin River36 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Iowa
Wisconsin · United States
776.1 km²
65.5% of basin
Sauk
Wisconsin · United States
312.2 km²
26.3% of basin
Richland
Wisconsin · United States
97.0 km²
8.2% of basin

17 intersecting protected areas

Lower Wisconsin Riverway
IUCN Ia
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
48.19 km² overlap
Lower Wisconsin State Riverway 132
IUCN V
Riverway
44.33 km² overlap
Spring Green Prickly Pear Preserve Fee
IUCN V
Preserve
3.48 km² overlap
Natural Area - Dedication
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
2.68 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Land Trust Easement #
IUCN Not Assigned
Easement
2.22 km² overlap
Lower Wisconsin River Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
1.02 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Iowa, WI
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.64 km² overlap
Stream Bank Protection Fee Program
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Area
0.50 km² overlap
Emergency Watershed Protection Program - Floodplain Easement (EWPP-FPE), Iowa, WI
IUCN V
Watershed Protection
0.40 km² overlap

8 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Rem-Otters Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.18 km² overlap
Ridgeway Pine Relict
IUCN V
State Natural Area
0.16 km² overlap
Rem-Harker Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not Assigned
Reserve Program
0.11 km² overlap
Rem-Pompey Pillar Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Rem-Dickinson Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Ridgeway Pine Relict
IUCN Not Assigned
State Natural Area
0.02 km² overlap
Stream Bank Easement Program
IUCN Not Assigned
Easement
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 001 distinct species · 410 591 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 36 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Wisconsin River : 27 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.111

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

7,4°C

Annual rain

831mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,13

Runoff

288mm/an

PET

955mm

AET

702mm

Mean slope

4,8°

Water table

202cm

Forest

80%

Crops

29%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)