Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · dnk
Vadehavet
- Area
- 1 512 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ia
- Year
- 1987
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- IUCN category
- Ia · Réserve naturelle intégrale
Protection stricte, accès limité aux fins scientifiques
- Established
- 1987
- Managing authority
- Municipalities Tønder Kommune Kongevej 57 Esbjerg Kommune Torvegade 74 Varde Kommune Bytoften 2 Fanø Kommune Rådhuset Skolevej 5-7 Local units of the Nature Agency Naturstyrelsen Blåvandshuk Ålholt Naturstyrelsen Vadehavet Skovridervej 3
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
5 977 distinct species · 1 759 825 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Vadehavet : 15 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 24.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology13 basins · 8 lakes · 30 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
111,2km
Lake surface here
2,54km²
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 054km²
Discharge in basins
4,8m³/s
Mean precip.
830mm/an
Mean T°
8,1°C
Moisture idx
0,33
Max snow
18%
Mean runoff
661mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
14m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Brøns Åsub-area380,5 km²overlap169.46 km²11%
- Bassin de Spangsbjerg Møllebæksub-area196,5 km²overlap76.78 km²5%
- Bassin de Vidåsub-area1 347,2 km²overlap58.38 km²4%
- Bassin de Søvig Bæksub-area402,1 km²overlap41.57 km²3%
- Bassin de Nørreåsub-area976,7 km²overlap28.01 km²2%
- Bassin de Brede Åsub-area455,8 km²overlap24.01 km²2%
- Bassin de Grindsted Åsub-area1 201 km²overlap16.69 km²1%
- Bassin de Koldby Ruersub-area38,9 km²overlap10.60 km²1%
- Bassin de Kongeåensub-area468,9 km²overlap10.00 km²1%
Lakes (8, top by area)
Rivers / streams (30, ord ≥ 4)
- Vidåord 4len here26.29 km68%total39 km
- Varde Åord 4len here11.90 km35%total34 km
- Ribe Åord 4len here11.43 km83%total14 km
- Brede Åord 3len here6.09 km17%total35 km
- Lindskov Møllestrømord 2len here5.67 km50%total11 km
- Kongeåenord 3len here5.20 km12%total43 km
- Sneum Åord 4len here5.05 km39%total13 km
- Storbækord 2len here4.12 km70%total6 km
- Brøns Åord 2len here3.93 km32%total12 km
- Rejsby Åord 2len here3.52 km34%total10 km
- Skifleord 1len here2.93 km100%total3 km
- Røgelstrømord 3len here2.93 km43%total7 km
18 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Åbølling Bækord 1len here2.81 km34%total8 km
- Mariebækord 4len here2.69 km29%total9 km
- Grænsegrøftenord 1len here2.58 km88%total3 km
- Vester Vedsted Bækord 1len here2.19 km23%total10 km
- Nørbækord 1len here2.11 km23%total9 km
- Hulmose Kanalord 1len here1.71 km86%total2 km
- Lundgrøftord 2len here1.67 km19%total9 km
- Øvebækord 1len here1.14 km91%total1 km
- Novrup Bækord 1len here1.02 km49%total2 km
- Møllebækord 1len here0.99 km23%total4 km
- Terpager Bækord 1len here0.72 km22%total3 km
- Kjelst Bækord 1len here0.64 km29%total2 km
- Fladsåord 4len here0.59 km11%total5 km
- Alslev Åord 2len here0.52 km5%total10 km
- Made Bækord 1len here0.46 km15%total3 km
- Guldager Møllebækord 1len here0.18 km11%total2 km
- Koldby Ruerord 1len here0.12 km7%total2 km
- Hjortvad Åord 2len here≈ tangenttotal6 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
- 55.18883, 8.51126
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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.