HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080505540
Bassin de Loup 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 : Merrick, Platte
Sub-basin area
324,9km²
Upstream area
38 343,1km²
Discharge
69,01m³/s
Mean elev.
465m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Looking Glass Creek200 km²
- Bassin de Loup River22 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Platte320.1 km²98.4% of basin
- 5.3 km²1.6% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Wilkinson
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.76 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.44 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Platte, NE
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.90 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.90 km² overlap
Lookingglass Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
550 distinct species · 9 775 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 Loup River : 29 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.3%, 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
694mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
151mm/an
PET
1 089mm
AET
592mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
59cm
Forest
2%
Crops
77%
Urban
4%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)