HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080610350
Bassin de Birch 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 : Fresno, Inyo
Sub-basin area
137,1km²
Upstream area
137,2km²
Discharge
0,97m³/s
Mean elev.
2 257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 137.0 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
John Muir
IUCN IbWilderness
61.86 km² overlap
Crater Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
12.73 km² overlap
Kings Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
0.66 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
643 distinct species · 4 118 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Birch Creek : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
7,3°C
Annual rain
382mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
233mm/an
PET
1 060mm
AET
293mm
Mean slope
15,1°
Water table
624cm
Forest
26%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
48%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)