HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080471080
Bassin de Plum 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 3 administrative regions : Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha
Sub-basin area
1 327,1km²
Upstream area
1 327,1km²
Discharge
3,05m³/s
Mean elev.
830m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 834.1 km²62.8% of basin
- Brown495.1 km²37.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Valentine
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
118.25 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
9.56 km² overlap
Preserve
7.61 km² overlap
Ballards Marsh
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
6.43 km² overlap
Plum Creek Valley
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
5.28 km² overlap
Bobcat
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
909 distinct species · 23 671 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Plum Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
540mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
1 090mm
AET
464mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
298cm
Forest
3%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)