Special Protection Area (Birds Directive) · deu
Wetterau
- Area
- 107 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- See European Environment Agency Geospatial Data Catalogue for more information - https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/be2142b0-7dc4-42e3-afac-f7cc5f1a9ac6
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 341 distinct species · 81 337 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Wetterau : 27 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology1 basins · 3 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
82,0km
Lake surface here
0,98km²
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 941km²
Discharge in basins
0,8m³/s
Mean precip.
701mm/an
Mean T°
9,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,09
Max snow
12%
Mean runoff
251mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
237m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Horlofford 2len here19.81 km61%total32 km
- Niddaord 4len here18.96 km36%total53 km
- Nidderord 3len here15.28 km34%total44 km
- Wetterord 3len here9.26 km26%total36 km
- Hammelshäuser Grabenord 3len here5.39 km40%total14 km
- Wolfsbachord 2len here5.19 km40%total13 km
- Waschbachord 4len here2.93 km24%total12 km
- Rosbachord 1len here1.26 km20%total6 km
- Biebergrabenord 1len here1.17 km88%total1 km
- Mühlbachord 5len here1.08 km0%total306 km
- Landwehrgrabenord 3len here0.64 km7%total9 km
- Bleichenbachord 1len here0.54 km4%total15 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 50.37089, 8.86606
- Open in maps
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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.