HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080488540
Bassin de Bear 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 : Clinton, Jackson, Jones
Sub-basin area
275,5km²
Upstream area
275,5km²
Discharge
2,4m³/s
Mean elev.
264m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- JonesIowa · United States183.0 km²66.3% of basin
- JacksonIowa · United States70.4 km²25.5% of basin
- ClintonIowa · United States22.5 km²8.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
McAndrews Wildlfie Area
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.83 km² overlap
Eden Valley
IUCN VRefuge
0.60 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.32 km² overlap
Baldwin Marsh
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
284 distinct species · 2 230 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Bear Creek : 40 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
8,5°C
Annual rain
897mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
275mm/an
PET
996mm
AET
757mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
121cm
Forest
6%
Crops
70%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)