HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080478680
Bassin de Dead 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 : Lake, Lake Michigan
Sub-basin area
1 139,9km²
Upstream area
1 140,2km²
Discharge
6,49m³/s
Mean elev.
177m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 821.7 km²72.0% of basin
- Lake Michigan229.1 km²20.1% of basin
- Lake91.0 km²8.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
11.47 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
4.48 km² overlap
North Dunes Nature Preserve
IUCN IaMarine Protected Area
2.61 km² overlap
Lyons Woods
IUCN VConservation Area
1.47 km² overlap
Illinois Beach
IUCN Not AssignedNature Preserve
0.27 km² overlap
City Of North Chicago
IUCN VOpen Space
0.06 km² overlap
Open Space
0.06 km² overlap
Lake
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 230 distinct species · 777 472 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 Dead River : 22 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
8,8°C
Annual rain
875mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
235mm/an
PET
877mm
AET
707mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
2%
Crops
10%
Urban
6%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)