Ruisseau· 6 segments
North Branch Chicago River
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Cook
Total length
38km
Max discharge
2,9m³/s
Max Strahler
3
Segments matched
6
River geography1 admin regions · 0 communes
1 administrative regions crossed (GADM L2)
- CookIllinois · United States28.6 kmin this dpt
9 intersecting protected areas
Plank Road Meadow Boat Launch
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserve
St. Paul's
IUCN VForest Preserve
Forest Reserve
Roman Pucinski
IUCN VPreserve
Clayton F. Smith Woods
IUCN VConservation Area
Prairie View Park, Nature Preserve, and
IUCN Not AssignedCommunity Center
Sauganash Prairie
IUCN VConservation Area
Wetlands
IUCN VWetland
Preserve
1 page = 1 named river (aggregation of 6 HydroRIVERS v10 segments). Spatial join cached after first hit.
Species present
2 822 distinct species · 358 435 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 North Branch Chicago River : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology (HydroRIVERS v10)
Total length
38km
Max discharge
2,9m³/s
Max Strahler
3
Segments matched
6
HydroRIVERS v1.0 (Lehner et al. 2019) aggregated by name + main_riv → 1 entity = 1 named river.