HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080132810
Bassin de Squirrel 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 : Northwest Arctic
Sub-basin area
331,6km²
Upstream area
4 175,3km²
Discharge
56,63m³/s
Mean elev.
107m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Klery Creek319 km²
- Bassin de Squirrel River87 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 333.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Selawik
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.21 km² overlap
Kobuk Valley
IUCN IINational Park
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
151 distinct species · 369 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Squirrel River : 31 espèces reliées par 64 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
-6,9°C
Annual rain
249mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
475mm/an
PET
310mm
AET
220mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
112cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)