HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080372860
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 5 administrative regions : Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Börde, Jerichower Land, Magdeburg, Salzlandkreis
Sub-basin area
611,9km²
Upstream area
94 913km²
Discharge
585,87m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Meloritionsgraben Pulspforde563 km²
- Bassin de Elbe21 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 190.0 km²30.9% of basin
- Magdeburg182.7 km²29.7% of basin
- 182.4 km²29.7% of basin
- 51.6 km²8.4% of basin
- 7.6 km²1.2% of basin
25 intersecting protected areas
Flusslandschaft Elbe
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve
99.60 km² overlap
Flusslandschaft Elbe, Entwicklungszone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - transition area
96.14 km² overlap
Elbaue zwischen Saalemündung und Magdeburg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
46.14 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
45.44 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
19.08 km² overlap
Hohe Börde
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
11.95 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
11.37 km² overlap
Zerbster Land
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
10.15 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe-Steckby
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.39 km² overlap
16 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Zerbster Land
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
6.78 km² overlap
Flusslandschaft Elbe, Pflegezone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - buffer zone
3.47 km² overlap
Kreuzhorst
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.23 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.90 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.37 km² overlap
Fauler See
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.91 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.82 km² overlap
Sülzetal bei Sülldorf
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.76 km² overlap
Stromelbe im Stadtzentrum Magdeburg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.64 km² overlap
Zuwachs-Külzauer Forst
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.53 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.47 km² overlap
Zerbster Land
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.32 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.31 km² overlap
Dornburger Mosaik
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
Salzstellen bei Sülldorf
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
Ohre- und Elbniederung
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 041 distinct species · 74 141 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 130 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 17.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
9,0°C
Annual rain
500mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
103mm/an
PET
736mm
AET
429mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
69cm
Forest
1%
Crops
56%
Urban
23%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)