HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080509700
Bassin de West Branch Susquehanna 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 5 administrative regions : Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk
Sub-basin area
538,3km²
Upstream area
4 114,2km²
Discharge
90,28m³/s
Mean elev.
514m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 221.0 km²41.0% of basin
- 144.1 km²26.7% of basin
- Clinton132.6 km²24.6% of basin
- 27.0 km²5.0% of basin
- Cameron14.3 km²2.6% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Quehanna
IUCN VIWild Area
79.68 km² overlap
Burns Run
IUCN VIWild Area
10.02 km² overlap
Restricted
IUCN VIWild Area
0.95 km² overlap
Bucktail State Park
IUCN VINatural Area
0.93 km² overlap
Marion Brooks
IUCN VINatural Area
0.87 km² overlap
Wykoff Run
IUCN VINatural Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 196 distinct species · 33 031 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 West Branch Susquehanna River : 28 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
7,8°C
Annual rain
1 052mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
632mm/an
PET
969mm
AET
776mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
403cm
Forest
95%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)