HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080633810
Bassin de Little Kern 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 1 administrative regions : Tulare
Sub-basin area
341,4km²
Upstream area
341,5km²
Discharge
2,3m³/s
Mean elev.
2 419m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 341.5 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Golden Trout
IUCN IbWilderness
307.53 km² overlap
Giant Sequoia
IUCN VNational Monument
17.23 km² overlap
Sequoia
IUCN IINational Park
16.68 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
2.79 km² overlap
Kern, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
0.11 km² overlap
John Krebs
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
758 distinct species · 3 719 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Little Kern River : 36 espèces reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
6,2°C
Annual rain
669mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
189mm/an
PET
916mm
AET
499mm
Mean slope
15,2°
Water table
648cm
Forest
96%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)