HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080588800
Bassin de Little Osage 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 : Bates, Vernon
Sub-basin area
123,5km²
Upstream area
4 436,7km²
Discharge
46,6m³/s
Mean elev.
239m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Osage River1331 km²
- Bassin de Marmaton River196 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Vernon117.4 km²95.0% of basin
- 6.1 km²5.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Conservation Area
33.38 km² overlap
Reserve Program
23.61 km² overlap
Horton Bottoms
IUCN VNatural Area
0.32 km² overlap
Osage Village
IUCN IIIState Historic Site
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
333 distinct species · 39 578 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Little Osage River : 23 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
13,0°C
Annual rain
1 063mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
333mm/an
PET
1 218mm
AET
899mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
47cm
Forest
1%
Crops
62%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)