HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080482170
Bassin de Pecatonica 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 : Green, Lafayette, Stephenson
Sub-basin area
579,5km²
Upstream area
3 012km²
Discharge
26,41m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pecatonica River1352 km²
- Bassin de East Branch Pecatonica River1081 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Green312.6 km²53.9% of basin
- 257.8 km²44.4% of basin
- Lafayette10.0 km²1.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.80 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.43 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Green, WI
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.29 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 251 distinct species · 36 238 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Pecatonica River : 33 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
870mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
278mm/an
PET
967mm
AET
735mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
135cm
Forest
4%
Crops
69%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)