HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080548660
Bassin de Medicine 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 8 administrative regions : Carroll, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Mercer +3
Sub-basin area
1 883,6km²
Upstream area
16 211,7km²
Discharge
120,09m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shoal Creek1594 km²
- Bassin de Grand River76 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Livingston491.8 km²26.1% of basin
- Linn284.7 km²15.1% of basin
- Sullivan263.1 km²14.0% of basin
- Putnam238.7 km²12.7% of basin
- Mercer214.4 km²11.4% of basin
- WayneIowa · United States198.1 km²10.5% of basin
- Grundy192.6 km²10.2% of basin
- Carroll2.3 km²0.1% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Fountain Grove
IUCN VConservation Area
20.63 km² overlap
Reserve Program
9.28 km² overlap
Medicine Creek
IUCN VWildlife Area
4.10 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.86 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
2.62 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.29 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.11 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
1.54 km² overlap
Conservation Area
1.29 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Reserve Program
0.45 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.41 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.39 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.27 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.16 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
706 distinct species · 41 159 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Medicine Creek : 28 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.3%, 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°
10,9°C
Annual rain
982mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
1 100mm
AET
827mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
104cm
Forest
3%
Crops
61%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)