HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080502840
Bassin de Mississippi 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 2 administrative regions : Rock Island, Scott
Sub-basin area
550,3km²
Upstream area
229 184,9km²
Discharge
1 630,83m³/s
Mean elev.
208m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wapsipinicon River845 km²
- Bassin de Mississippi River488 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ScottIowa · United States382.1 km²69.3% of basin
- 168.9 km²30.7% of basin
14 intersecting protected areas
Mississippi River
IUCN VConservation Area
9.27 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
6.04 km² overlap
Refuge
5.84 km² overlap
Princeton
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
4.57 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
1.25 km² overlap
State Natural Area
0.97 km² overlap
Ms Rv Pools 11-22
IUCN VRecreation Area
0.85 km² overlap
Crow Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.22 km² overlap
Refuge
0.04 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Private Conservation Land
0.03 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
0.03 km² overlap
Sylvan Slough
IUCN VNatural Area
0.02 km² overlap
Pearsall Sand Prairie
IUCN VNatural Area
0.01 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 230 distinct species · 207 777 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Mississippi River : 32 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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
887mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
982mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
98cm
Forest
8%
Crops
49%
Urban
30%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)