HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080562540
Bassin de Buckhannon 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 4 administrative regions : Barbour, Randolph, Upshur, Webster
Sub-basin area
739,6km²
Upstream area
739,6km²
Discharge
19,25m³/s
Mean elev.
632m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Upshur502.5 km²67.9% of basin
- Randolph178.4 km²24.1% of basin
- Barbour57.2 km²7.7% of basin
- Webster2.1 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
West Virginia
IUCN Not AssignedWildlife Center
1.28 km² overlap
Holly River
IUCN VState Park
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 486 distinct species · 11 471 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Buckhannon River : 31 espèces reliées par 84 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
1 347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
711mm/an
PET
1 065mm
AET
923mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
284cm
Forest
100%
Crops
12%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)