HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080468030
Bassin de South Branch of Smoke 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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Erie, Lake Erie, Niagara
Sub-basin area
352,4km²
Upstream area
678 714,3km²
Discharge
9 779,76m³/s
Mean elev.
203m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Big Sister Creek748 km²
- Bassin de Eighteen Mile Creek345 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ErieNew York · United States151.7 km²43.0% of basin
- 95.6 km²27.1% of basin
- 62.9 km²17.8% of basin
- 42.7 km²12.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niagara River Corridor
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 876 distinct species · 539 583 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 South Branch of Smoke Creek : 23 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.6%, 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°
8,4°C
Annual rain
1 004mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
359mm/an
PET
886mm
AET
695mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
51cm
Forest
20%
Crops
11%
Urban
34%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)