Ontologia

HydroLAKES lake · #14353

Thau

Natural lakeFranceEurope -2 m

Surface area

68,64km²

Avg depth

3,7m

Volume

254,72km³

Shoreline

69,3km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-2080016650471 km² · upstream 471 km²

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Hérault
    Occitanie · France
    68.77 km²
    100.0% of lake
9 communes (L5)

4 intersecting protected areas

  • Étang de Thau et lido de Sète à Agde

    IUCN Not Reported

    Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)

    68.68 km² overlap

  • Herbiers de l'étang de Thau

    IUCN Not Reported

    Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)

    68.68 km² overlap

  • Lido de thau

    IUCN IV

    Land acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)

    1.64 km² overlap

  • Etang de thau

    IUCN IV

    Land acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)

    0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 015 distinct species · 92 473 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

92 473 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 92 473
92 473–92 472
92 473–92 472
92 473–92 472
< 92 473

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Thau : 36 espèces + 3 bulles famille, 50 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 3 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).

Espèces affichées
39
Interactions affichées
50
Connectance
0.068
Patrimoniales
0
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)

Surface

68,64km²

Avg depth

3,7m

Volume

254,720km³

Watershed

367km²

Shoreline

69,3km

Shore dev. idx

2,36

Residence time

461days

Elevation

-2m

HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.