HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080431750
Bassin de Mosel
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 : Bernkastel-Wittlich, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarburg
Sub-basin area
384,3km²
Upstream area
25 759,8km²
Discharge
318,52m³/s
Mean elev.
430m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salm289 km²
- Bassin de Mosel162 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 303.1 km²78.6% of basin
- 81.1 km²21.0% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.4% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Landscape Protection Area
77.85 km² overlap
Haardtkopf
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
60.18 km² overlap
Idarwald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
20.29 km² overlap
Hunsrück-Hochwald
IUCN IINational Park
10.16 km² overlap
Hangbrücher bei Morbach
IUCN IVNature Reserve
7.37 km² overlap
Dhronhänge
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.09 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.96 km² overlap
Moselhänge und Nebentäler der unteren Mosel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.87 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
1.48 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Hochwald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.16 km² overlap
Mosel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.80 km² overlap
Wälder zwischen Wittlich und Cochem
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.66 km² overlap
Hilsbruch
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 929 distinct species · 34 756 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Mosel : 17 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 23.3%, 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
781mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
267mm/an
PET
728mm
AET
562mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
412cm
Forest
66%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)