HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080033790
Bassin de Storelva
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 7 administrative regions : Bamble, Drangedal, Gjerstad, Kragerø, Kviteseid +2
Sub-basin area
1 236,5km²
Upstream area
1 236,5km²
Discharge
27,1m³/s
Mean elev.
324m
Administrative coverage
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 958.4 km²77.1% of basin
- 104.6 km²8.4% of basin
- 99.1 km²8.0% of basin
- 32.9 km²2.6% of basin
- 32.2 km²2.6% of basin
- 9.4 km²0.8% of basin
- 6.4 km²0.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Lone
IUCN IaNature Reserve
28.59 km² overlap
Grytdalen
IUCN IaNature Reserve
14.70 km² overlap
Mørkvassjuvet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
8.90 km² overlap
Mørkvassjuvet
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
8.70 km² overlap
Sandvikheia
IUCN IaNature Reserve
4.21 km² overlap
Bjønntjenn
IUCN IaNature Reserve
3.68 km² overlap
Steinknapp
IUCN IaNature Reserve
3.54 km² overlap
Steinknapp
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
3.54 km² overlap
Vefallnåsa
IUCN IaNature Reserve
3.43 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Rønnomdalen
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
2.70 km² overlap
Rønnomdalen
IUCN IaNature Reserve
2.70 km² overlap
Solhomfjell og Kvenntjønnane
IUCN IaNature Reserve
2.68 km² overlap
Sannesnåsa
IUCN IaNature Reserve
2.35 km² overlap
Grønlifjellet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
2.32 km² overlap
Bjønnknuten
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.99 km² overlap
Siljufjellet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.99 km² overlap
Malfjell
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.88 km² overlap
Høydalsfjellet
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1.84 km² overlap
Høydalsfjellet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.84 km² overlap
Asgjerdstigfjell
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.54 km² overlap
Flottene
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.50 km² overlap
Bjørndalsfjellet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.23 km² overlap
Henneseidfjellet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.15 km² overlap
Kvenntjønnane
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1.07 km² overlap
Skultrevassåsen
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1.02 km² overlap
Skultrevassåsen
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.02 km² overlap
Lauvåsen
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.98 km² overlap
Ørnehallen
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.94 km² overlap
Bjynnustadfjellet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.88 km² overlap
Trillingtjennane
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 318 distinct species · 132 511 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Storelva : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 7 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
4,9°C
Annual rain
882mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
737mm/an
PET
492mm
AET
436mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
394cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)