HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080504140
Bassin de Muddy 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 5 administrative regions : Hancock, Lake Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca
Sub-basin area
377,9km²
Upstream area
378km²
Discharge
2,73m³/s
Mean elev.
207m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 215.3 km²56.9% of basin
- Seneca129.3 km²34.2% of basin
- Ottawa29.3 km²7.7% of basin
- 4.4 km²1.2% of basin
- Hancock0.2 km²0.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Ottawa, OH
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.13 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
1.13 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.67 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.58 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Sandusky, OH
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.34 km² overlap
Ottawa
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.17 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.17 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
742 distinct species · 36 403 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Muddy Creek : 30 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
874mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
230mm/an
PET
994mm
AET
734mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
9cm
Forest
3%
Crops
73%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)