HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080187920
Bassin de Gaula
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 : Melhus, Midtre Gauldal
Sub-basin area
137,6km²
Upstream area
2 418,3km²
Discharge
49,84m³/s
Mean elev.
407m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gaula998 km²
- Bassin de Ena499 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 126.5 km²91.4% of basin
- 11.9 km²8.6% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Nature Reserve
6.83 km² overlap
Granøyen
IUCN IVBotanical Conservation Area
0.27 km² overlap
Granøyen
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
0.27 km² overlap
Kvasshyllan
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 403 distinct species · 21 454 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Gaula : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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
789mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
751mm/an
PET
463mm
AET
402mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
355cm
Forest
85%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)