HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080525940
Bassin de Schuylkill 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 : Berks, Schuylkill
Sub-basin area
526,5km²
Upstream area
526,5km²
Discharge
10,72m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 513.5 km²97.4% of basin
- 13.7 km²2.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Locust Lake
IUCN IIIState Park
1.05 km² overlap
Tuscarora
IUCN IIIState Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 616 distinct species · 109 959 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Schuylkill River : 19 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.9%, 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°
9,1°C
Annual rain
1 172mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
620mm/an
PET
992mm
AET
830mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
365cm
Forest
98%
Crops
14%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)