HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080168260
Bassin de Birch 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
267,6km²
Upstream area
3 538,5km²
Discharge
9,17m³/s
Mean elev.
441m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Birch Creek2424 km²
- Bassin de South Fork Birch Creek847 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.4 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Steese
IUCN VNational Conservation Area
141.98 km² overlap
Birch Creek
IUCN VDesignated - Wild
49.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 30 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Birch Creek : 13 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
-6,1°C
Annual rain
219mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
101mm/an
PET
542mm
AET
213mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
209cm
Forest
34%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)