HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080430010
Bassin de Gersprenz
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 : Aschaffenburg, Bergstraße, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Odenwaldkreis, Offenbach
Sub-basin area
499,4km²
Upstream area
499,5km²
Discharge
4,5m³/s
Mean elev.
218m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 365.7 km²73.0% of basin
- 102.9 km²20.5% of basin
- 12.2 km²2.4% of basin
- 11.9 km²2.4% of basin
- 8.4 km²1.7% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Untere Gersprenzaue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
32.35 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
24.52 km² overlap
Buchenwälder des vorderen Odenwaldes
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
21.28 km² overlap
Landkreis Dieburg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
19.80 km² overlap
Sandkiefernwälder in der östlichen Untermainebene
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
18.42 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
8.30 km² overlap
Untere Gersprenz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.73 km² overlap
Landkreis Offenbach
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
6.86 km² overlap
Neuwiese und Wald nordöstlich von Messel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.74 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Wald südlich von Otzberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.45 km² overlap
Neuwiese von Messel
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.10 km² overlap
Grünlandbereiche östlich von Brensbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.87 km² overlap
In den Rödern bei Babenhausen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.86 km² overlap
In den Rödern bei Babenhausen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.86 km² overlap
Faulbruch von Münster
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.77 km² overlap
Reinheimer Teich
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.75 km² overlap
Wald bei Wald-Amorbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.74 km² overlap
Wald und Magerrasen bei Roßdorf
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.67 km² overlap
Oberläufe der Gersprenz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.66 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.52 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.48 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.32 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.32 km² overlap
Forstberg von Ueberau
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.29 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.28 km² overlap
Herrensee von Niedernhausen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.24 km² overlap
Felswände des nördlichen Odenwaldes
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.24 km² overlap
Fohlenweide von Dieburg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 585 distinct species · 159 394 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Gersprenz : 25 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.9%, 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
284mm/an
PET
804mm
AET
569mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
253cm
Forest
35%
Crops
42%
Urban
23%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)