HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080337960
Bassin de Lesser Slave 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 1 administrative regions : Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
696,4km²
Upstream area
14 440,6km²
Discharge
49,05m³/s
Mean elev.
670m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mooney Creek483 km²
- Bassin de Sawridge Creek245 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 699.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
306 distinct species · 1 557 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Lesser Slave River : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
0,0°C
Annual rain
509mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
93mm/an
PET
651mm
AET
434mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
30cm
Forest
74%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)