Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður
IUCN IINational Park · 2009
14 970 km²
Municipality · ISL
Skaftárhreppur
Iceland
ETPolar, tundra(59 %)
Species observed
1 499
Observations
18 087
Area
6 922,5km²
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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).
RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Skaftárhreppur : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Espèces affichées
27
Interactions affichées
57
Connectance
0.162
Patrimoniales
1
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Species present
1 499 distinct species · 18 087 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Climate
Mean T°
1,6°C
Annual rain
2 876mm
Warmest m°
9,9°C
Coldest m°
-6,9°C
Elevation: 560 m on average (min -7 m, max 1 969 m)
Bioclimatic details19 BIO + Köppen full + altitude statsExpert
Annual mean temp.
1,6°C
Annual rain
2 876mm
Warmest month
9,9°C
Coldest month
-6,9°C
Mean alt.
560m
Min
-7m
Max
1 969m
Std. dev.
481m
Köppen-Geiger (dominant)
ETPolar, tundra(59 %)Polar
CHELSA BIO 1-19 v2.1 · ETOPO DEM 60s · Köppen-Geiger 1991-2020 (Beck et al. 2018)
Hydrology20 basins · 50 lakes · 84 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
1 290,4km
Lake surface here
61,93km²
Basins crossed
20
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
1 797km²
Discharge in basins
430,4m³/s
Mean precip.
1 554mm/an
Mean T°
2,1°C
Moisture idx
0,79
Max snow
92%
Mean runoff
2 144mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
528m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Skaftásub-area1 797,2 km²overlap1806.00 km²26%
- Bassin de Hverfisfljótsub-area802,9 km²overlap808.06 km²12%
- Bassin de Hólmsásub-area909,1 km²overlap803.85 km²12%
- Bassin de Núpsásub-area765 km²overlap612.31 km²9%
- Bassin de Djúpásub-area430,6 km²overlap433.35 km²6%
- Bassin de Tungnaásub-area1 265,2 km²overlap423.81 km²6%
- Bassin de Geirlandsásub-area376,6 km²overlap378.97 km²5%
- Bassin de Blautakvíslsub-area421 km²overlap377.26 km²5%
- Bassin de Eldvatnsub-area326,3 km²overlap328.12 km²5%
11 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Skaftásub-area264,9 km²overlap266.62 km²4%
- Bassin de Kaldakvíslsub-area1 302,7 km²overlap233.62 km²3%
- Bassin de Stórilækursub-area1 695 km²overlap163.56 km²2%
- Basin #59110sub-area77 km²overlap77.53 km²1%
- Bassin de Fjaðrásub-area52,2 km²overlap52.53 km²1%
- Bassin de Markarfljótsub-area1 088 km²overlap27.00 km²0%
- Bassin de Gígjukvíslsub-area370,4 km²overlap23.65 km²0%
- Bassin de Múlakvíslsub-area136,9 km²overlap2.67 km²0%
- Bassin de Skjálfandafljótsub-area581,4 km²overlap0.84 km²0%
- Basin #58990sub-area0,6 km²overlap0.54 km²0%
- Bassin de Skógásub-area557,6 km²overlap0.04 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Langisjórarea25,4 km²avg depth45.2 m
- Lake #48843area9,6 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Grænalónarea9,1 km²avg depth25.5 m
- Lake #46549area1,4 km²avg depth9.5 m
- Lambavatnarea1,3 km²avg depth7.6 m
- Kambavatnarea1 km²avg depth8.9 m
- Lake #49223area1 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1245553area0,9 km²avg depth8.3 m
- Lac 1245263area0,9 km²avg depth4.5 m
41 more lakes
- Lac 1245862area0,8 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 1244873area0,7 km²avg depth9.1 m
- Lac 1245103area0,7 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1251984area0,7 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1241859area0,7 km²avg depth8.2 m
- Lac 1244601area0,6 km²avg depth6.8 m
- Lac 1245356area0,6 km²avg depth8.5 m
- Lac 1245931area0,5 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 1243438area0,4 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Lac 1247615area0,4 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1252619area0,4 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 1246907area0,4 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 1251522area0,3 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1249209area0,3 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 1250984area0,3 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 1255445area0,3 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lac 1247062area0,3 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1249323area0,3 km²avg depth9.1 m
- Lac 1241853area0,3 km²avg depth6.7 m
- Lac 1245895area0,3 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 1254788area0,3 km²avg depth2.0 m
- Lac 1246545area0,3 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1250000area0,3 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 1245988area0,3 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1246462area0,3 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 1253212area0,3 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1249094area0,3 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 1244235area0,2 km²avg depth10.3 m
- Lac 1250442area0,2 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 1245908area0,2 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 1244447area0,2 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 1249134area0,2 km²avg depth5.5 m
- Lac 1255958area0,2 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lac 1245669area0,2 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 1252744area0,2 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1246733area0,2 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 1250532area0,1 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 1241948area0,1 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lac 1246755area0,1 km²avg depth4.0 m
- Lac 1248704area0,1 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1252913area0,1 km²avg depth1.2 m
Rivers / streams (84, ord ≥ 4)
- Skaftáord 5len here125.75 km100%total125 km
- Hverfisfljótord 4len here83.45 km100%total83 km
- Tungnaáord 5len here79.90 km43%total188 km
- Djúpáord 4len here68.69 km100%total69 km
- Eldvatnord 5len here59.71 km100%total60 km
- Hólmsáord 5len here46.97 km100%total47 km
- Geirlandsáord 4len here41.35 km100%total41 km
- Núpsáord 3len here40.34 km100%total40 km
- Hellisáord 5len here38.74 km100%total39 km
- Eldvatnord 3len here34.45 km100%total34 km
- Leiráord 5len here33.46 km100%total33 km
- Syðri-Ófæraord 2len here31.84 km100%total32 km
72 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Skaftáord 4len here29.26 km100%total29 km
- Gígjukvíslord 5len here28.95 km81%total36 km
- Brunnáord 3len here28.75 km100%total29 km
- Vestri-Bergvatnsáord 2len here24.87 km100%total25 km
- Þvergljúfursáord 3len here24.50 km100%total24 km
- Öðulbrúaráord 5len here22.87 km100%total23 km
- Tungufljótord 3len here22.79 km100%total23 km
- Kúðafljótord 5len here22.16 km100%total22 km
- Þverkvíslord 3len here21.56 km100%total21 km
- Brúaráord 2len here20.89 km100%total21 km
- Lónakvíslord 3len here18.08 km100%total18 km
- Laxáord 2len here17.86 km100%total18 km
- Leirurord 2len here14.18 km100%total14 km
- Núpsvötnord 4len here14.18 km100%total14 km
- Fjaðráord 3len here13.61 km100%total14 km
- Norðari-Ófæraord 3len here13.59 km100%total14 km
- Jökulkvíslord 3len here12.09 km100%total12 km
- Skuggafjallakvíslord 2len here12.08 km100%total12 km
- Stangakvíslord 3len here12.07 km100%total12 km
- Þverárvatnord 5len here11.90 km100%total12 km
- Árkvíslarord 5len here11.41 km100%total11 km
- Hellnaáord 2len here11.26 km100%total11 km
- Stjórnord 1len here11.25 km100%total11 km
- Drangmelalækurord 1len here10.81 km100%total11 km
- Dýralækirord 2len here10.51 km100%total10 km
- Stórilækurord 4len here7.97 km100%total8 km
- Ytri-Bláfellsáord 2len here7.78 km100%total8 km
- Eldvatnord 2len here7.21 km100%total7 km
- Blautakvíslord 2len here6.73 km32%total21 km
- Fjaðráord 1len here6.64 km100%total7 km
- Fossálarord 5len here6.56 km100%total7 km
- Brennivínskvíslord 4len here6.40 km41%total15 km
- Eldvatnord 2len here6.25 km100%total6 km
- Stórilækurord 2len here6.19 km100%total6 km
- Súlaord 5len here6.08 km27%total23 km
- Rauðaord 1len here5.83 km100%total6 km
- Hverfisfljótord 3len here5.80 km100%total6 km
- Hvítáord 3len here5.49 km101%total5 km
- Brunnáord 4len here5.44 km100%total5 km
- Kálfáord 3len here5.23 km100%total5 km
- Álftakvíslord 4len here5.23 km100%total5 km
- Innri-Bláfellsáord 4len here4.69 km100%total5 km
- Þorvaldsáord 1len here4.53 km100%total5 km
- Fossáord 3len here4.40 km100%total4 km
- Skaftáord 1len here4.10 km100%total4 km
- Jökuldalakvíslord 3len here3.88 km100%total4 km
- Hrosshólmalækurord 2len here2.76 km100%total3 km
- Hverfisfljótord 4len here2.70 km100%total3 km
- Grenlækurord 1len here2.70 km100%total3 km
- Sylgjaord 2len here2.56 km11%total24 km
- Gæsá-syðriord 1len here2.45 km100%total2 km
- Skaftáord 1len here2.32 km100%total2 km
- Skálmord 1len here2.25 km100%total2 km
- Skálmord 1len here2.20 km100%total2 km
- Gæsá-innriord 2len here1.99 km100%total2 km
- Geirlandsáord 2len here1.90 km100%total2 km
- Hofstaðakvíslord 1len here1.74 km100%total2 km
- Brunnáord 1len here1.68 km100%total2 km
- Grenlækurord 1len here1.58 km101%total2 km
- Sveðjaord 4len here1.52 km14%total11 km
- Skálmord 1len here1.38 km100%total1 km
- Grafaráord 1len here1.27 km100%total1 km
- Skaftáord 1len here1.27 km100%total1 km
- Kjalnatóakvíslord 1len here1.23 km101%total1 km
- Geirlandsáord 1len here1.23 km101%total1 km
- Skaftáord 1len here1.20 km100%total1 km
- Mið-Bergvatnsáord 1len here1.16 km100%total1 km
- Fljótsbotnalækurord 1len here0.92 km100%total1 km
- Syðri-Ófæraord 1len here0.76 km100%total1 km
- Geirlandsáord 5len here0.51 km100%total1 km
- Kúðafljótord 1len here0.31 km100%total0 km
- Kirkjufellsósord 3len here0.23 km11%total2 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Protected areas7
IUCN III · 3IUCN II · 1IUCN Not Reported · 1IUCN Not Applicable · 1IUCN V · 1🌊 Marine · 3
Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
14 968 km²
Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · 2019
14 340 km²
Fjallabak
IUCN VNature Reserve · 1979
446 km²
Gervigígar í Álftaveri
IUCN IIINatural Monument · 1975
34 km²
Dverghamrar
IUCN IIINatural Monument · 1987
0 km²
Complete list7 protected areas
- VatnajökulsþjóðgarðurNational ParkIUCN II200914 970 km²
- VatnajökulsþjóðgarðurEmerald NetworkIUCN Not Reported14 968 km²
- Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and IceWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)IUCN Not Applicable201914 340 km²
- FjallabakNature ReserveIUCN V1979446 km²
- Gervigígar í ÁlftaveriNatural MonumentIUCN III197534 km²
- DverghamrarNatural MonumentIUCN III19870 km²
- KirkjugólfNatural MonumentIUCN III19870 km²
WDPA (World Database on Protected Areas) — UNEP-WCMC & IUCN