HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080464330
Bassin de Little Turkey 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 1 administrative regions : Fayette
Sub-basin area
95,5km²
Upstream area
937,5km²
Discharge
8,19m³/s
Mean elev.
342m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Crane Creek571 km²
- Bassin de Little Turkey River270 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- FayetteIowa · United States95.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
129 distinct species · 322 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Little Turkey River : 35 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
7,2°C
Annual rain
854mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
953mm
AET
723mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
144cm
Forest
11%
Crops
70%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)