HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080398850
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 2 administrative regions : Kassel, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Sub-basin area
264,9km²
Upstream area
3 318,6km²
Discharge
32,74m³/s
Mean elev.
259m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Schwalm1232 km²
- Bassin de Eder670 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 216.5 km²81.5% of basin
- 49.3 km²18.5% of basin
27 intersecting protected areas
Auenverbund Eder
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.97 km² overlap
Ederaue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
4.82 km² overlap
Untere Eder
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.72 km² overlap
Gudensberger Basaltkuppen und Wald am Falkenstein
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.27 km² overlap
Auenverbund Schwalm
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.37 km² overlap
Fuldaaue um Kassel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.75 km² overlap
Auenverbund Fulda
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.75 km² overlap
Rothgrund bei Besse
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.69 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.41 km² overlap
18 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Goldbergsee
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.37 km² overlap
Wattenberg/Hundsberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.36 km² overlap
Ems zwischen Merxhausen und Werkel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.31 km² overlap
Alte Kartause bei Gensungen
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
Wartberg bei Kirchberg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Wartberg bei Kirchberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.24 km² overlap
Heiligenberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.23 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
Rohrerlen bei Werkel
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.22 km² overlap
Leichenkopf bei Gleichen
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
Heiligenberg östlich Gensungen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.18 km² overlap
Reiherteich bei Böddiger
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Nenkel bei Gudensberg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.13 km² overlap
Rohrerlen bei Werkel
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
Sumpfwiese am Wattenberg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 342 distinct species · 67 256 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 18.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
727mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
277mm/an
PET
727mm
AET
558mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
247cm
Forest
4%
Crops
51%
Urban
8%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)