HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080588820
Bassin de Meramec 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 : Crawford, Phelps
Sub-basin area
396,1km²
Upstream area
2 265,5km²
Discharge
16,93m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dry Fork Creek987 km²
- Bassin de Meramec River883 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Crawford395.1 km²99.7% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.3% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Conservation Area
2.56 km² overlap
Conservation Area
0.61 km² overlap
Zahorsky Woods Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.31 km² overlap
Scotts Ford
IUCN VAccess
0.12 km² overlap
Spring's End Forest
IUCN VNatural Area
0.06 km² overlap
Leasburg Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.02 km² overlap
Riverview
IUCN VAccess
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 408 distinct species · 13 067 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Meramec River : 29 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, 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°
12,4°C
Annual rain
1 033mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
264mm/an
PET
1 240mm
AET
873mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
215cm
Forest
99%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)