HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080595150
Bassin de Beech Fork
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 : Marion, Nelson, Washington
Sub-basin area
542,3km²
Upstream area
1 950,4km²
Discharge
27,39m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cartwright Creek218 km²
- Bassin de Beech Fork69 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 355.7 km²65.6% of basin
- Marion123.8 km²22.8% of basin
- Washington63.1 km²11.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Arboretum
7.66 km² overlap
John C. Williams
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.71 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 034 distinct species · 12 833 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Beech Fork : 28 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, 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°
13,2°C
Annual rain
1 244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
420mm/an
PET
1 214mm
AET
942mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
157cm
Forest
28%
Crops
40%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)