HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080436860
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Grevenmacher, Trier-Saarburg
Sub-basin area
7,2km²
Upstream area
12 020,8km²
Discharge
165,32m³/s
Mean elev.
225m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mosel598 km²
- Bassin de Syre207 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.6 km²64.5% of basin
- GrevenmacherGrevenmacher · Luxembourg2.5 km²35.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Obere Mosel bei Oberbillig
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.80 km² overlap
Ahlbachtal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.26 km² overlap
Wasserbillig - Carrière de dolomie
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.01 km² overlap
ZSC - Natura 2000
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 946 distinct species · 11 382 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 17.8%, 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°
9,3°C
Annual rain
728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
309mm/an
PET
761mm
AET
561mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
444cm
Forest
10%
Crops
27%
Urban
38%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)