HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080083820
Bassin de Ikpikpuk 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 1 administrative regions : North Slope
Sub-basin area
453,7km²
Upstream area
11 535,7km²
Discharge
33,13m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oumalik River1392 km²
- Bassin de Ikpikpuk River45 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 457.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
42 distinct species · 448 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Ikpikpuk River : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
-11,8°C
Annual rain
158mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
280mm
AET
166mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
42cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)