HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080377430
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 8 administrative regions : Bielefeld, Gütersloh, Lippe, Münster, Osnabrück +3
Sub-basin area
1 995,4km²
Upstream area
1 995,4km²
Discharge
29,36m³/s
Mean elev.
94m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Gütersloh872.7 km²43.6% of basin
- Warendorf608.2 km²30.4% of basin
- 162.4 km²8.1% of basin
- Paderborn141.1 km²7.0% of basin
- Bielefeld100.0 km²5.0% of basin
- 97.1 km²4.8% of basin
- Steinfurt11.9 km²0.6% of basin
- Münster9.7 km²0.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
LSG-Guetersloh
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
387.32 km² overlap
Vogelschutzgebiet Senne mit Teutoburger Wald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
107.87 km² overlap
Senne mit Stapelager Senne
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
84.85 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
59.15 km² overlap
LSG-Halle-Steinhagen
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
49.69 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
40.27 km² overlap
Östlicher Teutoburger Wald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
37.31 km² overlap
LSG-Osning
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
22.94 km² overlap
Teutoburger Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
21.55 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
LSG Obere Senne
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
20.52 km² overlap
Teutoburger Wald, Kleiner Berg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
19.17 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
17.39 km² overlap
LSG-Feuchtsenne
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
17.20 km² overlap
LSG-Ostmünsterland
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
15.75 km² overlap
LSG-Trockensenne
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
13.34 km² overlap
Emsaue, Kreise Warendorf und Gütersloh
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
13.09 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
12.84 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
11.48 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
10.01 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.65 km² overlap
VSG 'Rietberger Emsniederung mit Steinhorster Becken'
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
9.29 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.16 km² overlap
LSG-Teutoburger Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.99 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
7.86 km² overlap
LSG Delbrücker Rücken
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.66 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.80 km² overlap
LSG Ems-Furlbach
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
6.78 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.74 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.47 km² overlap
NSG Holter Wald
IUCN IVNature Reserve
6.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 252 distinct species · 308 222 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 : 22 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 138 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 16.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 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°
9,1°C
Annual rain
826mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
446mm/an
PET
704mm
AET
566mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
99cm
Forest
12%
Crops
49%
Urban
22%
Protected
49%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)