HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080365780
Bassin de Ems
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 : Coesfeld, Emsland, Grafschaft Bentheim, Münster, Osnabrück +2
Sub-basin area
1 252,8km²
Upstream area
3 946,4km²
Discharge
57,47m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ems1995 km²
- Bassin de Werse698 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Steinfurt854.2 km²67.9% of basin
- 148.8 km²11.8% of basin
- Münster125.2 km²10.0% of basin
- Warendorf46.4 km²3.7% of basin
- 41.3 km²3.3% of basin
- Coesfeld41.0 km²3.3% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Emstal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
45.26 km² overlap
Emsaue <MS, ST>
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
26.29 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
23.61 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
23.03 km² overlap
NSG Emsaue
IUCN IVNature Reserve
13.77 km² overlap
Ems
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
13.19 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
12.76 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
12.68 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
11.74 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
VSG Feuchtwiesen im nördlichen Münsterland
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
11.25 km² overlap
NSG Emsaue
IUCN IVNature Reserve
10.51 km² overlap
LSG Sinninger Feld
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
10.32 km² overlap
LSG-Altenberger Ruecken
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
10.08 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.64 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
7.09 km² overlap
Nördliche Teile des Teutoburger Waldes mit Intruper Berg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.38 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.61 km² overlap
LSG-Brook Tilbeck
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.52 km² overlap
Emsdettener Venn und Wiesen am Max-Clemens-Kanal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.79 km² overlap
Vogelschutzgebiet 'Rieselfelder Münster'
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
4.37 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
4.15 km² overlap
LSG-Kattmannskamp
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.96 km² overlap
NSG Hoelter Feld
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.96 km² overlap
NSG Lienener Osning
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.55 km² overlap
NSG Emsdettener Venn
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.42 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.38 km² overlap
NSG Vorbergs Huegel
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.11 km² overlap
Eltingmühlenbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.09 km² overlap
LSG-Elter Sand
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.04 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
2.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 986 distinct species · 370 121 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 Bassin de Ems : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 137 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 17.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
796mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
418mm/an
PET
705mm
AET
558mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
58cm
Forest
2%
Crops
50%
Urban
18%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)