HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080701820
Bassin de Sipsey 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 7 administrative regions : Fayette, Greene, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa +2
Sub-basin area
2 032,1km²
Upstream area
2 032,4km²
Discharge
42,67m³/s
Mean elev.
125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 640.2 km²31.5% of basin
- 489.5 km²24.1% of basin
- 298.6 km²14.7% of basin
- 266.6 km²13.1% of basin
- 255.1 km²12.6% of basin
- 46.2 km²2.3% of basin
- 35.1 km²1.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sipsey River Complex
IUCN VNature Preserve
14.06 km² overlap
Sipsey River Complex
IUCN VNature Preserve
12.71 km² overlap
Sipsey River Complex
IUCN VNature Preserve
1.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 234 distinct species · 19 671 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 Sipsey River : 24 espèces reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
16,2°C
Annual rain
1 469mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
655mm/an
PET
1 389mm
AET
1 065mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
126cm
Forest
91%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)