Uhlirska catchment - Czechia

Basic Information
Site Name
Uhlirska catchment
Short name
Uhlirska
Country
Czechia
Operating Organisation
Czech Geological Survey (CGS)
Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
Site Manager
Prof. Jakub Hruška
Funding Agency
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Site Description
Uhlířská (Jizerské Mts.) is a typical mountain catchment underlain by acidic bedrock and strongly acidified during the second half of the 20th century. Two thirds of the catchment were deforested in 1980s and subsequently reforested by Norway spruce (Picela abies) monoculture. Research here has been mostly focused on fluxes of ecologically important elements and water. The monitored characteristics include bulk and throughfall precipitation amount and chemistry, runoff amount and chemistry as well as soil chemistry, forest biomass and element pools but also plant community composition. Biogeochemical (MAGIC) and hydrological models (BROOK90) have been applied to predict future chemistry and hydrology under different scenarios of ...
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2023-08-08 12:08:54

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
1994
Observed properties
water parameterecosystem parameternitrogencontentrunoffamountsurfacerunofftotalorganiccarbonabovegroundbiomassspeciescompositiontreediameteratbreastheight
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
CZ-LTER✖The affiliation of this site with "CZ-LTER" is not verified by the network on DEIMS-SDR.
Projects
NEC Directive (2016/2284)
ICP Waters
Photos
Uhlirska in the middle at deforested stage, 1997
Uhlirska in the middle at deforested stage, 1997
Geographic
500 m
1000 ft
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8306642 Longitude: 15.1507544

Size
ca. 178.00ha
Elevation (average)
825.00msl
Elevation (min)
776.00msl
Elevation (max)
886.00msl
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Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Fresh water rivers
Terrestrial
Biome
Evergreen Forest
Ecosystem Type
Forest
Fresh Water Rivers
Biogeographical Region
Continental Bio-geographical Region
EUNIS habitat
Inland surface waters (C)
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
5.90°C
Precipitation Annual
1250.00mm
Geology
bedrock: fractured and fissured granite, overlaid by glacial sediments
Vegetation
Spruce monoculture, occasional beech, larch, rowanberry
Soils
Cambisols and Podzols (hillslopes), Histosols (valley)
Hydrology
humic, runoff coefficient 0.75, Nov-Apr snow cover
Protection Level (IUCN category)
Category V – Protected Landscape/Seascape/Area
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
no experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
not applicable
Design of Observation
only observation
Scale of Observation
entire catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Equipment notes
Sensing of climatic, meteorological data, observation of soil suction, soil mosture, surface and subsurface runoff, groundwater level, sampling for stable isotopes and chemical parameters in water (precipitation, runoff, soil water, groundwater]
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
No
Permanent Operation
Yes
Site Visit Interval
7
Maintenance Interval
180
General Data Policy
Co-authorship on publications resulting from use of the dataset
LTER Site Classification
Regular