HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080645080
Bassin de Duck 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 3 administrative regions : Giles, Maury, Williamson
Sub-basin area
479,6km²
Upstream area
3 898,3km²
Discharge
60,25m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rutherford Creek300 km²
- Bassin de Duck River109 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 463.2 km²96.6% of basin
- Williamson14.7 km²3.1% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Williamsport
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
6.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
804 distinct species · 11 662 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Duck River : 32 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, 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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
1 376mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
431mm/an
PET
1 299mm
AET
1 000mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
194cm
Forest
38%
Crops
31%
Urban
6%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)