HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080128340
Bassin de Niaktuvik 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 1 administrative regions : Northwest Arctic
Sub-basin area
337km²
Upstream area
337,1km²
Discharge
5,12m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 339.3 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kobuk Valley
IUCN IINational Park
333.97 km² overlap
Kobuk Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
233.60 km² overlap
Selawik
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.47 km² overlap
Selawik
IUCN IbWilderness Area
2.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
286 distinct species · 1 039 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Niaktuvik Creek : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
-7,1°C
Annual rain
253mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
484mm/an
PET
335mm
AET
227mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
69cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)