HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080401920

Bassin de Eder

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 : Kassel, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Waldeck-Frankenberg

16% lakePfafstetter: 23270685

Sub-basin area

669,6km²

Upstream area

1 821,5km²

Discharge

19,45m³/s

Mean elev.

342m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Ems265 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Orke282 km²
Bassin de Mühlgraben55 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Waldeck-Frankenberg
Hessen · Germany
490.7 km²
73.0% of basin
Kassel
Hessen · Germany
91.1 km²
13.6% of basin
Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Hessen · Germany
90.3 km²
13.4% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Kellerwald
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
137.38 km² overlap
Kellerwald Edersee
IUCN II
National Park
76.94 km² overlap
Kellerwald
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
58.23 km² overlap
Auenverbund Eder
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
18.82 km² overlap
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
IUCN Not Applicable
World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
14.68 km² overlap
Ederaue
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
13.62 km² overlap
Untere Eder
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
11.94 km² overlap
Wald nördlich Netze
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
10.80 km² overlap
Edersee-Steilhänge
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.97 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Stausee von Affoldern
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
1.62 km² overlap
Obere Eder
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.54 km² overlap
Stausee von Affoldern
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.47 km² overlap
Stausee von Affoldern
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.47 km² overlap
Dalwigker Holz und Gebranntes Holz bei Korbach
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.36 km² overlap
Langenstein, Klinger Klippen und Hochstein
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.84 km² overlap
Ederauen bei Obermöllrich und Cappel
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
0.75 km² overlap
Ederauen zwischen Bergheim und Wega
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
0.68 km² overlap
Bilstein bei Bad Wildungen
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
0.63 km² overlap
Bilstein bei Bad Wildungen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.63 km² overlap
Sondertal und Talgraben bei Bad Wildungen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.63 km² overlap
Sondertal und Talgraben bei Bad Wildungen
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
0.63 km² overlap
Zechsteinhänge bei Lieschensruh
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
0.48 km² overlap
Zechsteinhänge bei Lieschensruh
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
0.45 km² overlap
Zechsteinhänge bei Lieschensruh
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.45 km² overlap
Schartenberg bei Reitzenhagen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.41 km² overlap
Hünselburg
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
0.41 km² overlap
Eckerich bei Fritzlar
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
0.40 km² overlap
Auenverbund Schwalm
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
0.36 km² overlap
Ederseeufer bei Herzhausen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.29 km² overlap
Ederseeufer bei Herzhausen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.29 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 323 distinct species · 165 126 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 33 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Eder : 26 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.129

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

8,2°C

Annual rain

835mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,15

Runoff

305mm/an

PET

698mm

AET

565mm

Mean slope

5,7°

Water table

331cm

Forest

30%

Crops

27%

Urban

Protected

12%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)