HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080556450
Bassin de Middle Yuba 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 3 administrative regions : Nevada, Sierra, Yuba
Sub-basin area
544,5km²
Upstream area
545km²
Discharge
13,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 441m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Sierra280.8 km²51.5% of basin
- Nevada213.3 km²39.1% of basin
- 50.8 km²9.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Crest Conservation Easement, Phase III
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.92 km² overlap
Macklin Creek
IUCN VEcological Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 465 distinct species · 21 593 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Middle Yuba River : 30 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
1 473mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
692mm/an
PET
1 102mm
AET
649mm
Mean slope
13,4°
Water table
605cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)