HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080710990
Bassin de Big Prairie 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 4 administrative regions : Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry
Sub-basin area
673,6km²
Upstream area
673,7km²
Discharge
11,36m³/s
Mean elev.
58m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 463.8 km²68.9% of basin
- 152.4 km²22.6% of basin
- 57.0 km²8.5% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
7.73 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
2.08 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.67 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.69 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Marengo, AL
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 013 distinct species · 66 546 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Big Prairie Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.9%, 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°
17,5°C
Annual rain
1 384mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
532mm/an
PET
1 411mm
AET
1 045mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
47cm
Forest
31%
Crops
27%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)