HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080460740
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 : Dane, Iowa, Sauk
Sub-basin area
35,8km²
Upstream area
24 699,1km²
Discharge
234,67m³/s
Mean elev.
230m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wisconsin River870 km²
- Bassin de Honey Creek482 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 18.4 km²51.3% of basin
- 9.6 km²26.8% of basin
- Iowa7.9 km²21.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Lower Wisconsin Riverway
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
14.95 km² overlap
Riverway
11.37 km² overlap
Walking Iron - 7A Farms
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Area
3.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 822 distinct species · 102 895 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Wisconsin River : 26 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
802mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
319mm/an
PET
956mm
AET
678mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
50cm
Forest
78%
Crops
28%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)