HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080490240
Bassin de Kishwaukee River East Branch
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 2 administrative regions : De Kalb, Kane
Sub-basin area
294,6km²
Upstream area
294,6km²
Discharge
3,17m³/s
Mean elev.
269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 161.7 km²54.8% of basin
- De Kalb133.3 km²45.2% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Parkside
IUCN VPreserve
0.55 km² overlap
Great Western
IUCN Not AssignedTrail
0.36 km² overlap
Lily Lake Marsh
IUCN VLake
0.08 km² overlap
Chief Black Partridge
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.05 km² overlap
Cardinal Creek
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 008 distinct species · 25 813 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 Kishwaukee River East Branch : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
927mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
336mm/an
PET
989mm
AET
774mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
35cm
Forest
3%
Crops
84%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)