HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080516500
Bassin de Wood 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 : Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Hall, Merrick
Sub-basin area
1 705,4km²
Upstream area
1 705,5km²
Discharge
4,46m³/s
Mean elev.
702m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 788.6 km²46.2% of basin
- Dawson401.0 km²23.5% of basin
- Hall246.5 km²14.4% of basin
- Custer227.0 km²13.3% of basin
- 44.5 km²2.6% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Hall County
IUCN IVWaterfowl Production Area
1.30 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.23 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.65 km² overlap
Wood River West
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.09 km² overlap
Central Platte North Natural Resource District Easement # 20
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.04 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Merrick, NE
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 509 distinct species · 63 242 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Wood River : 27 espèces reliées par 64 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
613mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
80mm/an
PET
1 112mm
AET
524mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
94cm
Forest
10%
Crops
58%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)