Nature Reserve · ISL
Þjórsárver
- Area
- 1 560 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1987
Overview
- Designation
- Nature Reserve
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1987
- Managing authority
- Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
940 distinct species · 17 668 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Þjórsárver : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.4%, 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).
Hydrology7 basins · 13 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
298,8km
Lake surface here
4,40km²
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
2 894km²
Discharge in basins
53,4m³/s
Mean precip.
1 268mm/an
Mean T°
0,2°C
Moisture idx
0,75
Max snow
78%
Mean runoff
1 170mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
758m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Þjórsásub-area2 893,7 km²overlap1069.62 km²69%
- Bassin de Blandasub-area2 609,1 km²overlap153.77 km²10%
- Bassin de Austari-Jökulsásub-area343,5 km²overlap118.01 km²8%
- Bassin de Jökulfallsub-area394,5 km²overlap102.67 km²7%
- Bassin de Vestari-Jökulsásub-area853 km²overlap99.78 km²6%
- Bassin de Hnjúkskvíslsub-area200,8 km²overlap15.48 km²1%
- Bassin de Fúlakvíslsub-area835,6 km²overlap0.47 km²0%
Lakes (13, top by area)
- Lac 1240132area1 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 1240700area0,5 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1236672area0,5 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lac 1238547area0,5 km²avg depth8.8 m
- Lac 1240539area0,4 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1240101area0,4 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 1239254area0,2 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1239561area0,2 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1236161area0,2 km²avg depth4.9 m
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- Miklakvíslord 2len here55.01 km100%total55 km
- Þjórsáord 6len here53.75 km34%total160 km
- Blautakvíslord 5len here40.39 km100%total40 km
- Háöldukvíslord 4len here34.03 km100%total34 km
- Innri-Arnarfellskvíslord 5len here18.96 km100%total19 km
- Hnífáord 5len here18.62 km100%total19 km
- Bergvatnskvíslord 4len here14.94 km37%total40 km
- Þjórsárkvíslarord 5len here11.47 km100%total11 km
- Þúfuverskvíslord 2len here9.19 km72%total13 km
- Vestari-Jökulsáord 3len here7.62 km16%total47 km
- Eyvindarkvíslord 3len here7.46 km79%total9 km
- Blandaord 4len here7.02 km4%total177 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Efri-Þverkvíslord 2len here4.71 km32%total15 km
- Fossáord 4len here4.42 km9%total51 km
- Svartáord 2len here3.54 km31%total12 km
- Múlakvíslord 3len here3.16 km100%total3 km
- Strangakvíslord 3len here1.33 km7%total18 km
- Tjarnarkvíslord 1len here1.16 km44%total3 km
- Austari-Jökulsáord 4len here1.06 km1%total101 km
- Háumýrakvíslord 4len here0.63 km23%total3 km
- Jökulkvíslord 2len here0.28 km1%total20 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
- 64.72520, -18.77844
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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.