HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080291620
Bassin de Brine 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 : Division No. 16, Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
71,9km²
Upstream area
2 432,6km²
Discharge
1,09m³/s
Mean elev.
181m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salt River910 km²
- Bassin de Brine Creek376 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 64.2 km²88.8% of basin
- Fort Smith8.1 km²11.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
National Park
21.50 km² overlap
Wood Buffalo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
21.47 km² overlap
Whooping Crane Summer Range
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
14.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
71 distinct species · 96 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Brine Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
-2,7°C
Annual rain
347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
585mm
AET
306mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
7cm
Forest
36%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)