HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080468090
Bassin de Niobrara 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 : Cherry
Sub-basin area
491km²
Upstream area
19 440km²
Discharge
6,51m³/s
Mean elev.
849m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ainsworth Canal1338 km²
- Bassin de Ainsworth Canal172 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 491.9 km²100.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Valentine
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
77.01 km² overlap
Fort Niobrara
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
15.33 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
8.75 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.59 km² overlap
Schlagel Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.96 km² overlap
Borman Bridge
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.94 km² overlap
Big Alkali Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 083 distinct species · 18 139 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Niobrara River : 32 espèces reliées par 113 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
503mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 095mm
AET
432mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
417cm
Forest
3%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)