HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080610750
Bassin de Ohio 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 : Ballard, Pulaski
Sub-basin area
122,7km²
Upstream area
525 821km²
Discharge
7 830,69m³/s
Mean elev.
105m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ohio River455 km²
- Bassin de Humphrey Creek211 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Pulaski77.9 km²63.4% of basin
- 44.9 km²36.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Boatwright
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.37 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.26 km² overlap
Ballard
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
207 distinct species · 720 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 Ohio River : 35 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
1 215mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
562mm/an
PET
1 190mm
AET
916mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
32cm
Forest
29%
Crops
48%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)