HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080402200
Bassin de Saale
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 4 administrative regions : Burgenlandkreis, Jena, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Weimarer Land
Sub-basin area
361,2km²
Upstream area
3 996km²
Discharge
26,1m³/s
Mean elev.
274m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Roda261 km²
- Bassin de Reinstädter Bach173 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 200.8 km²55.4% of basin
- 106.1 km²29.3% of basin
- 28.4 km²7.8% of basin
- 27.1 km²7.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Landscape Protection Area
152.30 km² overlap
Muschelkalkhänge der westlichen Saaleplatte
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
45.99 km² overlap
Kernberge - Wöllmisse
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
13.36 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
13.26 km² overlap
Leutratal - Cospoth - Schießplatz Rothenstein
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
12.91 km² overlap
Tautenburger Forst - Hohe Lehde - Gleistalhänge
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
11.00 km² overlap
Jenaer Forst
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.14 km² overlap
Großer Gleisberg - Jenzig
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.12 km² overlap
Isserstedter Holz - Mühltal - Windknollen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.09 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Hufeisen-Jenzig
IUCN IVNature Reserve
6.26 km² overlap
Waldecker Schloßgrund - Langes Tal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.05 km² overlap
Leutratal und Cospoth
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.82 km² overlap
Jenaer Forst
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.43 km² overlap
Nerkewitzer Grund - Klingelsteine - Heiligenberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.10 km² overlap
Saale
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.75 km² overlap
Gleistalhänge
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2.77 km² overlap
Frauenprießnitzer Holz und Laase
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.96 km² overlap
Windknollen
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.83 km² overlap
Unteraue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.27 km² overlap
Alter Gleisberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.25 km² overlap
Isserstedter Holz
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.21 km² overlap
Alter Gleisberg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.16 km² overlap
Hohe Lehde
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.92 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.84 km² overlap
Waldecker Schloßgrund
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.61 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.60 km² overlap
Oberaue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.59 km² overlap
Saalehänge bei Tultewitz südlich Bad Kösen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.56 km² overlap
Großschwabhäuser Hain
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.36 km² overlap
Lohholz
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 318 distinct species · 142 375 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Saale : 27 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.7%, 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°
8,1°C
Annual rain
603mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
727mm
AET
510mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
398cm
Forest
10%
Crops
42%
Urban
12%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)