HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080496700
Bassin de Turtle 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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Essex, Lake Erie, Ottawa
Sub-basin area
488,5km²
Upstream area
621 311,8km²
Discharge
9 500,61m³/s
Mean elev.
174m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Henry Creek587 km²
- Bassin de Big Creek381 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 205.4 km²42.0% of basin
- 174.2 km²35.6% of basin
- Ottawa72.3 km²14.8% of basin
- 37.3 km²7.6% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Magee Marsh
IUCN VWildlife Area
2.94 km² overlap
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
IUCN VIMarine Protected Area
2.90 km² overlap
Ottawa
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.54 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
2.18 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.47 km² overlap
Gyde
IUCN VWetland
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
935 distinct species · 235 944 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Turtle Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
854mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
172mm/an
PET
911mm
AET
693mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
7cm
Forest
0%
Crops
76%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)