HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080502970
Bassin de Mud 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 2 administrative regions : Polk, Warren
Sub-basin area
154,9km²
Upstream area
28 851,4km²
Discharge
174,04m³/s
Mean elev.
264m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Middle River1412 km²
- Bassin de Spring Creek58 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- PolkIowa · United States101.3 km²65.3% of basin
- WarrenIowa · United States53.7 km²34.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Red Rock
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
14.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
487 distinct species · 5 193 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Mud Creek : 39 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
877mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
229mm/an
PET
1 024mm
AET
743mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
125cm
Forest
4%
Crops
61%
Urban
3%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)