HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080606080
Bassin de Elk 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 6 administrative regions : Butler, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery +1
Sub-basin area
1 820km²
Upstream area
1 820,1km²
Discharge
15,42m³/s
Mean elev.
315m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1148.0 km²63.0% of basin
- Montgomery440.3 km²24.2% of basin
- 109.4 km²6.0% of basin
- 103.6 km²5.7% of basin
- 13.8 km²0.8% of basin
- Butler5.8 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Dove Flats
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.68 km² overlap
Duck Creek
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 063 distinct species · 26 550 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 Elk River : 34 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
957mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
260mm/an
PET
1 263mm
AET
810mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
128cm
Forest
2%
Crops
28%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)