HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080504520
Bassin de Loup Canal
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 3 administrative regions : Merrick, Nance, Platte
Sub-basin area
144,9km²
Upstream area
36 018,7km²
Discharge
57,06m³/s
Mean elev.
498m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Plum Creek301 km²
- Bassin de Loup River28 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 134.9 km²93.0% of basin
- Platte5.6 km²3.9% of basin
- 4.5 km²3.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Don Dworak
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.77 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
1.98 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.55 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Merrick, NE
IUCN VConservation Easement
1.42 km² overlap
George D. Syas
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.83 km² overlap
Sunny Hollow
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.65 km² overlap
Council Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.65 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
240 distinct species · 2 171 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Loup Canal : 38 espèces reliées par 123 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
684mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 093mm
AET
584mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
102cm
Forest
0%
Crops
64%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)