Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive) · fra
Haute vallée du Lot entre Espalion et Saint-Laurent-d'Olt et gorges de la Truyère, basse vallée du Lot et le Goul
- Area
- 57 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 2008
Overview
- Designation
- Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
- Established
- 2008
- Managing authority
- See European Environment Agency Geospatial Data Catalogue for more information - https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/be2142b0-7dc4-42e3-afac-f7cc5f1a9ac6
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 298 distinct species · 10 055 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Haute vallée du Lot entre Espalion et Saint-Laurent-d'Olt et gorges de la Truyère, basse vallée du Lot et le Goul : 20 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 21.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 2 lakes · 24 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
73,6km
Lake surface here
3,02km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
7 394km²
Discharge in basins
2,4m³/s
Mean precip.
776mm/an
Mean T°
9,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,13
Max snow
12%
Mean runoff
508mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
785m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin du Lotsub-area1 033,3 km²overlap51.24 km²91%
- Bassin de la Truyèresub-area980,7 km²overlap2.91 km²5%
- Bassin de l'Auzesub-area246,7 km²overlap1.22 km²2%
- Bassin du Goulsub-area309,9 km²overlap0.65 km²1%
- Bassin de la Selvessub-area215 km²overlap0.56 km²1%
- Bassin du Lotsub-area1 119,3 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (24, ord ≥ 4)
- Le Lotord 5len here45.38 km11%total398 km
- La Truyèreord 4len here9.66 km5%total200 km
- Ruisseau des Mousseauxord 4len here3.18 km17%total18 km
- Le Goulord 3len here2.89 km5%total55 km
- Ruisseau de Mandialouord 1len here2.81 km21%total13 km
- Ruisseau de Gardesord 5len here1.70 km35%total5 km
- Boralde Flaujaguèseord 4len here1.68 km34%total5 km
- Ruisseau de Nozeranord 4len here1.57 km30%total5 km
- Ruisseau d'Esparrouord 4len here0.95 km14%total7 km
- Les Toursord 4len here0.95 km19%total5 km
- L'Auronneord 1len here0.69 km33%total2 km
- Ruisseau de Mardonenqueord 1len here0.63 km6%total10 km
12 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Ruisseau de Portezord 5len here0.50 km11%total5 km
- La Boralde de Flaujacord 2len here0.48 km5%total10 km
- L'Auzeord 5len here0.27 km1%total23 km
- Goulord 3len here0.12 km1%total9 km
- La Boraldeord 1len here0.05 km0%total19 km
- Rémenousord 1len here0.05 km2%total2 km
- La Rasthèneord 2len here0.03 km1%total3 km
- Le Brezonsord 4len here0.03 km0%total15 km
- La Dazeord 2len here0.01 km0%total14 km
- Le Cantoinetord 1len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
- Ruisseau de Langairouxord 2len here≈ tangenttotal8 km
- Combenousseord 1len here≈ tangenttotal5 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 44.65410, 2.57379
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.