HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080574960
Bassin de Dry 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 : Mendocino, Sonoma
Sub-basin area
569km²
Upstream area
569km²
Discharge
14,46m³/s
Mean elev.
308m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 456.7 km²80.2% of basin
- 112.7 km²19.8% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Lake Sonoma
IUCN VWildlife Area
31.37 km² overlap
Riddell
IUCN VPreserve
1.62 km² overlap
Open Space
0.12 km² overlap
Roake
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.08 km² overlap
Van Alyea
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 654 distinct species · 34 217 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Dry Creek : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
13,3°C
Annual rain
1 161mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
748mm/an
PET
1 250mm
AET
634mm
Mean slope
12,2°
Water table
501cm
Forest
89%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)