HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080662600
Bassin de Bear Creek
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 7 administrative regions : Colbert, Franklin, Itawamba, Lawrence, Marion +2
Sub-basin area
2 399,9km²
Upstream area
2 399,9km²
Discharge
49,97m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1293.9 km²53.9% of basin
- 519.7 km²21.7% of basin
- 360.5 km²15.0% of basin
- 153.7 km²6.4% of basin
- 53.9 km²2.2% of basin
- 13.1 km²0.5% of basin
- 4.6 km²0.2% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Freedom Hills
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
82.44 km² overlap
Freedom Hills
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
41.81 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
12.24 km² overlap
Freedom Hills
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
7.87 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.46 km² overlap
Alabama Land Trust
IUCN Not AssignedPreserve
0.40 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.14 km² overlap
Sipsey
IUCN IbWilderness
0.03 km² overlap
Divide Section
IUCN VState Conservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 575 distinct species · 59 349 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Bear Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
15,2°C
Annual rain
1 460mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
659mm/an
PET
1 340mm
AET
1 037mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
158cm
Forest
72%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)