HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080525370
Bassin de Little Lehigh 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 2 administrative regions : Berks, Lehigh
Sub-basin area
287,7km²
Upstream area
287,7km²
Discharge
5,91m³/s
Mean elev.
157m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 233.5 km²81.1% of basin
- 54.6 km²18.9% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
South Mountain
IUCN VPreserve
1.10 km² overlap
South Mountain
IUCN VReservoir
0.46 km² overlap
Pool
IUCN VWildlife Sanctuary
0.31 km² overlap
Preserve
0.11 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Chester, PA
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.08 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.05 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.05 km² overlap
Buehler
IUCN VPreserve
0.03 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 108 distinct species · 511 246 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 Little Lehigh Creek : 26 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
10,3°C
Annual rain
1 149mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
648mm/an
PET
1 042mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
189cm
Forest
59%
Crops
27%
Urban
53%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)