HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080712530
Bassin de Duck 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 : Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall
Sub-basin area
751,3km²
Upstream area
3 498,1km²
Discharge
23,5m³/s
Mean elev.
141m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rowlett Creek520 km²
- Bassin de East Fork Trinity River229 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 396.7 km²52.8% of basin
- Dallas280.4 km²37.3% of basin
- 73.6 km²9.8% of basin
- Ellis0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
4.96 km² overlap
FCP
IUCN VNatural Area
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 019 distinct species · 200 754 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Duck Creek : 32 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
18,2°C
Annual rain
967mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
1 409mm
AET
818mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
91cm
Forest
9%
Crops
25%
Urban
31%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)