LTSER-ESTUARIES - Portugal

Basic Information
Site Name
LTSER-ESTUARIES
Short name
LTSER Estuaries
Country
Portugal
Site Manager
Ana Marta Gonçalves
Joao Carlos Marques
Site Description
3M_RECITAL - MINHO, MONDEGO, AND MIRA ESTUARIES observatory: Long term vaRiation of ECOLOGICAL sTAtus as a response to naturaL and human induced changes. Implications for management and restoration. The Minho River estuary is located in the western Iberian margin (SW Europe), in the border region between the Minho (north of Portugal) and Galicia (Spain) regions. It is classified as a mesotidal estuary, covering a total area of 23 km2. The estuary has a great socio-economic importance, providing goods and services to about 80,000 of persons. It has also a high ecological value, mainly due to its large diversity of habitats and biodiversity (it is included in NATURA 2000; it is classified as a “Zona de Protecção Especial para Aves” ...
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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2011
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER Europe✔This site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
LTER Portugal✔ (LTER_EU_PT_010)This site is a verified "LTER Portugal" member.
Photos
not defined
not defined
Geographic
100 km
100 mi
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 41.8697 Longitude: -8.86498

Size
ca. 4530.00ha
Elevation (average)
10.00msl
Elevation (min)
0.00msl
Elevation (max)
30.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Coastal
Biome
Coastal
Ecosystem Type
Coastal
Marine
EUNIS habitat
Coastal habitats (B)
Habitat complexes (X)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
13.00°C
Precipitation Annual
87.50mm
Vegetation
Macrophytes
Soils
Sandy
Hydrology
Highly hidrodynamic systems
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
mainly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
micro sites
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
plot without link to explicit catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Equipment
Data infrastructure » Data services » Data portal
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Paper
Data infrastructure » Data storage » XML database
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Structured file
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Proprietary file format
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
No
Access Type
boat
Permanent Operation
No
Site Visit Interval
30
Maintenance Interval
30
General Data Policy
Co-authorship on publications resulting from use of the dataset
LTER Site Classification
LTSER
There is EURO-CORDEX climate scenario data available for this site:
Projected Near Surface Specific Humidity ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Precipitation ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Sea Level Pressure ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Surface Downwelling Shortwave RadiationRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Near-Surface Wind SpeedRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Daily Maximum Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85

You can also download the entire climate scenario dataset for this site from the EUDAT B2SHARE data store.