HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080284260
Bassin de Quicksilver 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 2 administrative regions : Bethel, Dillingham
Sub-basin area
576,7km²
Upstream area
576,7km²
Discharge
5,58m³/s
Mean elev.
533m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 579.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Yukon Delta
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
320.77 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
303.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 50 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Quicksilver Creek : 15 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 12.5%, 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°
-3,3°C
Annual rain
549mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
403mm/an
PET
413mm
AET
340mm
Mean slope
12,9°
Water table
245cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
55%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)