HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080500710
Bassin de Wappinger 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 1 administrative regions : Dutchess
Sub-basin area
539km²
Upstream area
539km²
Discharge
12,99m³/s
Mean elev.
151m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- DutchessNew York · United States539.8 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
State Multiple Use Area
2.39 km² overlap
Baxtertown Woods
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.26 km² overlap
State Multiple Use Area
2.26 km² overlap
Thompson Pond
IUCN VPreserve
1.98 km² overlap
Dutchess County Lands
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.15 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 762 distinct species · 558 691 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Wappinger Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
8,9°C
Annual rain
1 096mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
762mm/an
PET
1 004mm
AET
794mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
276cm
Forest
100%
Crops
10%
Urban
11%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)