HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080289710
Bassin de Little Buffalo 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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 16, Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
330,5km²
Upstream area
3 451km²
Discharge
4,82m³/s
Mean elev.
236m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Buffalo River1562 km²
- Bassin de Little Buffalo River374 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 197.9 km²59.5% of basin
- Fort Smith134.4 km²40.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Whooping Crane Summer Range
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
269.70 km² overlap
Wood Buffalo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
266.79 km² overlap
National Park
195.88 km² overlap
National Park
64.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
217 distinct species · 643 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Little Buffalo River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 117 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
-2,9°C
Annual rain
349mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
567mm
AET
307mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
13cm
Forest
29%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
80%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)