HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080152330
Bassin de Discovery 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 : Yukon-Koyukuk
Sub-basin area
77,1km²
Upstream area
4 060km²
Discharge
13,2m³/s
Mean elev.
141m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Preacher Creek1400 km²
- Bassin de Discovery Creek435 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 77.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yukon Flats
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
73.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 40 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 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 Discovery Creek : 2 espèces reliées par 1 interaction GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 33.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
-5,7°C
Annual rain
200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
96mm/an
PET
538mm
AET
198mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
9cm
Forest
19%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)