HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080464370
Bassin de la Meurthe
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 1 administrative regions : Meurthe-et-Moselle
Sub-basin area
99,4km²
Upstream area
2 361,8km²
Discharge
40,21m³/s
Mean elev.
252m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Mortagne581 km²
- Bassin de la Meurthe25 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 99.7 km²100.0% of basin
21 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Rosières-aux-Salines16.44 km²60% commune
- Barbonville10.86 km²100% commune
- Blainville-sur-l'Eau10.35 km²87% commune
- Vitrimont9.15 km²76% commune
- Damelevières8.20 km²100% commune
- Vigneulles5.60 km²100% commune
- Méhoncourt5.58 km²71% commune
- Charmois5.21 km²97% commune
- Dombasle-sur-Meurthe4.92 km²47% commune
- Saffais4.07 km²98% commune
- Mont-sur-Meurthe4.04 km²42% commune
- Anthelupt4.03 km²51% commune
- Hudiviller3.07 km²100% commune
- Romain2.73 km²90% commune
- Haussonville2.34 km²20% commune
- Ferrières2.10 km²33% commune
- Flainval0.73 km²19% commune
- Deuxville0.21 km²3% commune
- Einvaux0.07 km²1% commune
- Domptail-en-l'Air0.01 km²0% commune
- Lunéville0.01 km²0% commune
1 intersecting protected areas
grandes et petites hieres
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 343 distinct species · 58 260 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 la Meurthe : 28 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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
775mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
401mm/an
PET
803mm
AET
600mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
135cm
Forest
24%
Crops
34%
Urban
16%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)