Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080649870

Bassin de Tuckasegee 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 : Sevier, Swain

8% lakePfafstetter: 74262747

Sub-basin area

382,8km²

Upstream area

1 894,6km²

Discharge

59,33m³/s

Mean elev.

980m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 438 distinct species · 73 014 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

73 014 obs · 12 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 25 512
15 693–25 511
5 589–15 692
2 731–5 588
< 2 731

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 35 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Tuckasegee River : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
38
Interactions affichées
65
Connectance
0.092
Patrimoniales
1
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

10,8°C

Annual rain

1 609mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,28

Runoff

895mm/an

PET

1 138mm

AET

1 013mm

Mean slope

15,9°

Water table

471cm

Forest

100%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

72%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)