HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080343450
Bassin de Elbe
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 8 administrative regions : Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Gifhorn, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lüneburg +3
Sub-basin area
2 418,9km²
Upstream area
130 857,5km²
Discharge
738,31m³/s
Mean elev.
39m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Elbe196 km²
- Bassin de Löcknitz56 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1016.6 km²41.9% of basin
- 1007.4 km²41.5% of basin
- Lüneburg269.1 km²11.1% of basin
- 122.2 km²5.0% of basin
- Stendal8.8 km²0.4% of basin
- Uelzen4.5 km²0.2% of basin
- Gifhorn0.1 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Flusslandschaft Elbe
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve
350.20 km² overlap
Elbhöhen-Drawehn
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
303.10 km² overlap
Flusslandschaft Elbe, Entwicklungszone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - transition area
223.45 km² overlap
Niedersächsische Mittelelbe
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
209.60 km² overlap
Salzwedel-Diesdorf
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
165.82 km² overlap
Elbeniederung zwischen Schnackenburg und Geesthacht
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
134.71 km² overlap
Flusslandschaft Elbe, Pflegezone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - buffer zone
124.51 km² overlap
Lucie
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
76.62 km² overlap
Drawehn
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
57.37 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Mecklenburgisches Elbetal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
55.74 km² overlap
Landgraben- und Dummeniederung
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
49.29 km² overlap
Landgraben- und Dummeniederung
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
39.68 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
39.54 km² overlap
Arendsee
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
29.08 km² overlap
Landgraben-Dumme-Niederung nördlich Salzwedel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
29.02 km² overlap
Wanzeberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
26.39 km² overlap
Landgraben-Dumme-Niederung
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
25.77 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
21.47 km² overlap
Die Lucie
IUCN IVNature Reserve
16.23 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
13.52 km² overlap
Nemitzer Heide
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
10.60 km² overlap
Nemitzer Heide
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
10.60 km² overlap
Nemitzer Heide
IUCN IVNature Reserve
10.60 km² overlap
Langendorfer Berg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
10.34 km² overlap
Lüchower Landgraben
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
9.71 km² overlap
Waldgebiet Ferchau bei Salzwedel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.18 km² overlap
Elbtallandschaft und Löcknitzniederung bei Dömitz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.54 km² overlap
Obere Dummeniederung
IUCN IVNature Reserve
6.45 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
6.22 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 060 distinct species · 319 865 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Elbe : 27 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
591mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
206mm/an
PET
715mm
AET
498mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
105cm
Forest
20%
Crops
38%
Urban
1%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)