HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080105770
Bassin de Sheenjek 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 2 administrative regions : North Slope, Yukon-Koyukuk
Sub-basin area
2 099,8km²
Upstream area
2 099,8km²
Discharge
2,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2069.4 km²97.8% of basin
- 45.5 km²2.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
2114.95 km² overlap
Arctic
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2114.53 km² overlap
Mollie Beattie
IUCN IbWilderness Area
2104.50 km² overlap
Sheenjek River
IUCN VWild & Scenic River Corridor
194.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
619 distinct species · 2 199 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Sheenjek River : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 22 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°
-14,9°C
Annual rain
150mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
244mm
AET
157mm
Mean slope
20,6°
Water table
564cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)