HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080647150
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 6 administrative regions : Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, Rutherford +1
Sub-basin area
1 108,8km²
Upstream area
2 018,1km²
Discharge
34,6m³/s
Mean elev.
247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Duck River580 km²
- Bassin de Garrison Fork330 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Bedford913.7 km²82.4% of basin
- Marshall141.5 km²12.8% of basin
- Rutherford35.7 km²3.2% of basin
- Moore13.0 km²1.2% of basin
- Williamson4.3 km²0.4% of basin
- Lincoln0.7 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Duck River Megasite
IUCN VEasement
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 454 distinct species · 23 660 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 : 36 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
1 384mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
545mm/an
PET
1 290mm
AET
991mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
93cm
Forest
20%
Crops
48%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)