Spruce forests - Czechia

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Basic Information
Site Name
Spruce forests
Short name
Spruce forests
Country
Czechia
Site Description
Norway spruce forests survived in inaccessible localities of the montane belt and around the upper treeline at the end of the Mumlava and Labe valleys, Dlouhý důl, Modrý důl, Obří důl, and Jelení důl. Significant plants are ferns (the mountain lady-fern, malefern, broad buckler-fern, holly fern), grasses (the hairy small-reed, wavy hair-grass) and bryophytes. Tall herb meadows with hairy chervil, blue sow-thistle, monkshood, white butterbur, or large bitter-cress can be found around forest streams and springs. Significant animals are mainly snail Semilimax kotulae, springtail Tetrodontophora bielanensis, eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, ground beetles Carabus sylvestris and C. linnei, daddy-longleg Ischyropsalis belwigii, Tengmalm's owl, firecrest and goldcrest, crossbil, jay, nutcracker, alpine shrew, red squirrel, and red deer.
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2020-06-29 10:27:11

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Closed
Year Established
2009
Photos
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Geographic
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7296 Longitude: 15.7641

Size
ca. 1450.00ha
Elevation (average)
1189.00msl
Elevation (min)
915.00msl
Elevation (max)
1353.00msl
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GEO-BON Biome
Terrestrial
Biome
Evergreen Forest
Ecosystem Type
Forest
Evergreen Forest
Biogeographical Region
Continental Bio-geographical Region
EUNIS habitat
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
5.30°C
Precipitation Annual
1261.00mm
Geology
It is a geological unit of Proterozoic and Palaeozoic crystalline schist, primarily mica schist, phyllite and orthogneisses, dating back to between 600 million and 1 billion years ago.
Vegetation
Significant plant species: Ferns (alpine lady fern Athyrium distentifolium), male-fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) and deer fern Blechnum spicant); grasses (hairy reedgrass Calamagrostis villosa and wavy hairgrass Avenella flexuosa) and bryophytes; montane flood-meadows alongside streams and spring sites in forests contain plants like chervil (Chaerophyllum hirsutum), (Cicerbita alpine), garden monkshood (Aconitum plicatum), white butterbur (Petasites albus), large bitter-cress (Cardamine amara) and others.
Soils
The types of soil found in Krkono?e spruce forests are largely of acidic form, with prevailing types being brown forest soil and humus soil with peaty podzol and podzolic ranker in the lowest and higher altitudes, respectively.
Hydrology
At the foot of the range, annual precipitation is about 800 mm, whilst the ridges receive 1,200?1,400 mm.
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
partly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
plot scale
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
plot within catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Equipment
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Accessible All Year
No
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
paved road
Permanent Operation
No
Site Visit Interval
365
General Data Policy
Legal permission for dataset use is obtained
LTER Site Classification
not applicable
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