HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080502000
Bassin de Des Moines River
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 : Polk
Sub-basin area
67km²
Upstream area
26 186,2km²
Discharge
156,01m³/s
Mean elev.
256m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fourmile Creek251 km²
- Bassin de Des Moines River31 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- PolkIowa · United States67.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Watershed Protection
0.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
588 distinct species · 15 494 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Des Moines River : 38 espèces reliées par 91 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
855mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
222mm/an
PET
1 024mm
AET
725mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
137cm
Forest
14%
Crops
53%
Urban
34%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)