HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080379560
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 3 administrative regions : Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Dessau-Roßlau, Salzlandkreis
Sub-basin area
536km²
Upstream area
70 137,5km²
Discharge
452,27m³/s
Mean elev.
69m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Elbe1385 km²
- Bassin de Strengbach473 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 386.0 km²71.7% of basin
- Dessau-Roßlau98.8 km²18.4% of basin
- 53.2 km²9.9% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Flusslandschaft Elbe
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve
130.61 km² overlap
Flusslandschaft Elbe, Entwicklungszone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - transition area
83.48 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe einschließlich Steckby-Lödderitzer Forst
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
76.03 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
74.46 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
42.73 km² overlap
Kühnauer Heide und Elbaue zwischen Aken und Dessau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
37.50 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
31.17 km² overlap
Elbaue Steckby-Lödderitz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
30.31 km² overlap
Flusslandschaft Elbe, Pflegezone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - buffer zone
28.51 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
21.81 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
18.77 km² overlap
Flusslandschaft Elbe, Kernzone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - core area
18.33 km² overlap
Wulfener Bruch und Teichgebiet Osternienburg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
17.85 km² overlap
Zerbster Land
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
16.31 km² overlap
Zerbster Land
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
16.16 km² overlap
Mosigkauer Heide
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
10.57 km² overlap
Mittlere Elbe-Steckby
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
10.49 km² overlap
Diebziger Busch und Wulfener Bruchwiesen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.49 km² overlap
Wulfener Bruchwiesen
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.98 km² overlap
Spitzberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.31 km² overlap
Diebziger Busch
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2.61 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
2.26 km² overlap
Kleinzerbster Busch
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.07 km² overlap
Neolith-Teich
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.06 km² overlap
Brambach südwestlich Dessau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.97 km² overlap
Brambach
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.78 km² overlap
Untere Muldeaue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.35 km² overlap
Rößling
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
Mittelelbe
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.21 km² overlap
Zerbster Land
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 308 distinct species · 54 354 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 128 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 17.3%, 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°
9,1°C
Annual rain
492mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
106mm/an
PET
747mm
AET
424mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
33cm
Forest
7%
Crops
52%
Urban
10%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)