HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080487780
Bassin de South Branch Middle Loup 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 5 administrative regions : Cherry, Garden, Grant, Hooker, Sheridan
Sub-basin area
1 175,3km²
Upstream area
1 175,9km²
Discharge
0,47m³/s
Mean elev.
1 162m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Grant575.6 km²48.9% of basin
- Sheridan240.9 km²20.5% of basin
- 140.8 km²12.0% of basin
- 124.1 km²10.5% of basin
- 95.8 km²8.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Frye Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
509 distinct species · 7 279 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Middle Loup River : 30 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
8,1°C
Annual rain
460mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 089mm
AET
396mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
467cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)