HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080491460
Bassin de West Buttrick 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 : Calhoun, Greene, Webster
Sub-basin area
538,3km²
Upstream area
538,4km²
Discharge
3,34m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- WebsterIowa · United States291.2 km²54.0% of basin
- GreeneIowa · United States247.3 km²45.9% of basin
- CalhounIowa · United States0.7 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Pound Pits
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.62 km² overlap
Waters
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.16 km² overlap
Scheuermann Prairie
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.07 km² overlap
Lindquist
IUCN VWildlife Sanctuary
0.02 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
274 distinct species · 1 135 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 West Buttrick Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 111 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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
824mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
1 028mm
AET
699mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
23cm
Forest
0%
Crops
89%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)