HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080661180
Bassin de Mississippi 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 : Crittenden, Desoto, Shelby
Sub-basin area
214,8km²
Upstream area
214,9km²
Discharge
5,28m³/s
Mean elev.
84m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Desoto167.3 km²77.9% of basin
- Shelby47.4 km²22.0% of basin
- CrittendenArkansas · United States0.2 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Shelby, TN
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
1.30 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201338A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
766 distinct species · 37 980 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Mississippi River : 24 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
16,1°C
Annual rain
1 302mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
775mm/an
PET
1 258mm
AET
962mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
45cm
Forest
19%
Crops
27%
Urban
35%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)