Kevo Subarctic Research Institute (Kevo LTER) - Finland

Basic Information
Site Name
Kevo Subarctic Research Institute (Kevo LTER)
Short name
Kevo LTER
Country
Finland
Operating Organisation
Site Manager
Site Description
Kevo Subarctic Research Institute of the University of Turku is a modern research institute (strict nature reserve in the immediate vicinity) with long-term ecological data-sets and field-experiments at the northernmost tip of the European Community. This facility provides excellent research possibilities for scientists interested in environmental, ecological and evolutionary work in the ecotone between northern Boreal and Subarctic/Arctic Biomes. Kevo has established a research network (in collaboration with Department of Geology, University of Turku) for a long-term on study on Northern Fennoscandic Quaternary glacial cycles and Holocene environmental change (palaeoecology and –stratigraphy, lacustrine strata), including a ...
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2025-01-07 11:01:56

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
1958
Observed properties
atmospheric parameterecosystem parameterwater parameterbiological parameterairhumidityairtemperatureatmosphericpressuredewpointincomingradiationintensitynetsolarradiationirradianceprecipitationintensityreflectedradiationintensitysnowdepthsolarradiationwinddirectionwinddirection(meanandgust)windspeedwindspeed(meanandgust)communitycompositiondiversityindexecosystemstructurehabitatstructureplantspeciescompositionspeciesabundancespeciescompositionlakelevellaketemperaturewaterlevelwatertemperaturefloweringdatepopulationsize
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTERThis site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER EuropeThis site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
LTER Finland (LTER_EU_FI_012)This site is a verified "LTER Finland" member.
INTERACT (https://www.interact-gis.org/Home/Station/20)This site is a verified "INTERACT" member.
GERIThis site is a verified "GERI" member.
AnaEEThe affiliation of this site with "AnaEE" is not verified by the network on DEIMS-SDR.
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Kevo station
Kevo station
Geographic
Marker
100 km
100 mi
Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 69.757 Longitude: 27.0131

Size
ca. 10000.00ha
Elevation (average)
90.00msl
Elevation (min)
20.00msl
Elevation (max)
640.00msl
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