biosphere reserve · deu
Schwäbische Alb
- Area
- 853 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Assigned
- Year
- 2008
Overview
- Designation
- biosphere reserve
- Established
- 2008
- Managing authority
- Bundesamt für Naturschutz
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
7 234 distinct species · 134 666 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Schwäbische Alb : 18 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 18.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 26 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
155,4km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
9 468km²
Discharge in basins
37,6m³/s
Mean precip.
862mm/an
Mean T°
7,9°C
Moisture idx
0,12
Max snow
21%
Mean runoff
398mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
613m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Große Lautersub-area362 km²overlap226.35 km²27%
- Bassin de Ermskanalsub-area186 km²overlap163.63 km²19%
- Bassin de Lautersub-area199,8 km²overlap116.87 km²14%
- Bassin de Schmiechsub-area407,3 km²overlap102.15 km²12%
- Bassin de Donausub-area1 868,4 km²overlap89.01 km²10%
- Bassin de Starzelsub-area1 049,1 km²overlap65.13 km²8%
- Bassin de Donausub-area945,1 km²overlap44.62 km²5%
- Bassin de Neckarsub-area324,7 km²overlap38.50 km²5%
- Bassin de Filssub-area681 km²overlap6.39 km²1%
Rivers / streams (26, ord ≥ 4)
- Große Lauterord 2len here37.11 km82%total45 km
- Schmiechord 3len here18.20 km65%total28 km
- Ermskanalord 2len here14.18 km72%total20 km
- Oberer Mühlkanalord 2len here13.31 km100%total13 km
- Lauterord 3len here9.89 km9%total114 km
- Stadtbachord 1len here8.93 km51%total17 km
- Gächinger Lauterord 2len here8.69 km100%total9 km
- Hasenbachord 2len here6.30 km90%total7 km
- Echazord 2len here5.42 km61%total9 km
- Reuterwiesenbachord 1len here4.13 km68%total6 km
- Riedgrabenord 4len here3.72 km23%total16 km
- Zwiefalter Achord 2len here3.55 km96%total4 km
14 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Läuterleord 1len here3.39 km36%total10 km
- Elsachord 1len here3.30 km100%total3 km
- Leinsbachord 1len here2.87 km100%total3 km
- Donauord 7len here2.79 km0%total876 km
- Schwarze Lauterord 1len here2.56 km100%total3 km
- Eierbachord 1len here2.47 km100%total2 km
- Steinachord 4len here1.84 km2%total96 km
- Donntalbachord 1len here1.38 km100%total1 km
- Breitenbachord 2len here0.47 km3%total16 km
- Achord 2len here0.29 km0%total80 km
- Arbachord 2len here0.22 km2%total9 km
- Saubachord 1len here0.19 km2%total11 km
- Flözenbachord 2len here0.09 km1%total11 km
- Kleine Schmiechord 3len here0.08 km1%total7 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 48.41934, 9.49987
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.