HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080393590
Bassin de Fulda
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 : Göttingen, Kassel, Kassel (Kreisfreie Stadt), Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Werra-Meißner-Kreis
Sub-basin area
578,6km²
Upstream area
6 897,3km²
Discharge
64,84m³/s
Mean elev.
303m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fulda3000 km²
- Bassin de Ems265 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 308.2 km²53.1% of basin
- 104.5 km²18.0% of basin
- Göttingen95.9 km²16.5% of basin
- 67.9 km²11.7% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.8% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Landscape Protection Area
64.55 km² overlap
Habichtswald und Seilerberg bei Ehlen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
20.56 km² overlap
Stadt Kassel
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
19.84 km² overlap
Unteres Fuldatal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
13.47 km² overlap
Bachtäler im Kaufunger Wald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.46 km² overlap
Werra- und Wehretal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.96 km² overlap
Oberes Fuldatal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.02 km² overlap
Weserhänge mit Bachläufen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.97 km² overlap
Fuldaaue um Kassel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
6.72 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Oberes Niestetal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
6.53 km² overlap
Kaufunger Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.49 km² overlap
Niestetal und Niestehänge
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.11 km² overlap
Bachtäler im Kaufunger Wald
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2.87 km² overlap
Riedforst bei Melsungen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.78 km² overlap
Lossetal bei Fürstenhagen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.72 km² overlap
Dönche
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.06 km² overlap
Dönche
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.71 km² overlap
Oberes Niestetal
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.56 km² overlap
Hirschberg- und Tiefenbachwiesen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.17 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
1.07 km² overlap
Mittleres Fuldatal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.07 km² overlap
Niestehänge
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.04 km² overlap
Fulda zwischen Wahnhausen und Bonaforth
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.04 km² overlap
Heubruchwiesen bei Eschenstruth
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.92 km² overlap
Höllgraben in Fuldatal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.81 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.75 km² overlap
Glimmerode und Hambach bei Hessisch Lichtenau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.75 km² overlap
Muschelkalkhänge Weimar
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.56 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.51 km² overlap
Auenverbund Fulda
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 688 distinct species · 164 876 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Fulda : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 91 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
8,3°C
Annual rain
757mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
290mm/an
PET
719mm
AET
563mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
318cm
Forest
31%
Crops
16%
Urban
33%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)