Rosalia Lehrforst - Austria

DEIMS.ID: 

https://deims.org/77c127c4-2ebe-453b-b5af-61858ff02e31
Basic Information

Site Name: 

Rosalia Lehrforst

Short name : 

Rosalia Lehrforst

Web Address: 

http://www.wabo.boku.ac.at/leh...

Country (Site Location): 

Austria

LTER Member Network: 

Austria (LTER-Austria)

Contact: Site Manager: 

Josef Gasch

General Site Description: 

The University forest is about 1000 ha, covered with all major tree species and forest types in Austria (Norway spruce, Fir, Larch, Scots pine, Beech, Oak, etc). The forest area is located in the Rosalia Mountains near the Lower Austria/Burgenland border. The Demonstration Forest (950 ha) was setted up in 1972 by agreement between the Federal Forst of Austria and the University. Nevertheless, the University deal with this area since 1875, at that time considerable documentations and a forst description and planning was elaborated. It is located on the western slope of the mountainous ridge called „Rosaliengebirge“ in the southeastern part of Lower Austria (LAT 47°42’N, LON 16°17’ E). Elevation is between 300 and 720 m a.s.l, annual mean temperature of 6.5 deg C and 800 mm annual precipitation sum. The forest is mainly composed of beech associations (Fagetums) , peripheral also spruce-fir-beech forest association (Abieti-Fagetum). The Key task of the Forest Demonstration Centre ist supporting the educational and research work of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Accordingly, accommodation, work and teaching facilities are provided. The research focus lies on following areas: · Collection and hold ready of area-based and environmental Data · Establishing and monitoring of sample plots especially for beech growth and treatment related questions · Characterization of local and microclimate · Environmental impacts to forest ecosystems · Monitoring and modelling of small forested watersheds Essential research and educational infrastructure are: · 4 Weather monitoring stations · 2 scaffolding towers for measuring (35m) with instrument cabin · 4 Measuring weirs for runoff monitoring (Watershed 230 ha) · radio linked data collection and on-line hosting · Surveying and Mapping equipments (terrestric and GPS) · IT-Room with different Software-packages (GIS, Planning Tools etc.) · Laboratories and work rooms · Lecture Rooms · Accommodation The available data range from base data (GIS-Data), meterological and hydrological time series (since 1990), inventory data of growing stock, data of different plots to measuring data related to numerous projects.

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General Characteristics, Purpose, History

Site Status: 

existing

Year Site Established: 

1972

Size : 

950.00ha

Purpose of Site : 

Forest ecosystem and forest growth and treatment research and teaching

Research Topics: 

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Photos
  • Site seen from East to West
    Rosalia Forest
  • V-Notch (Thompson-) weir in the Grasriegel-Graben
    Measuring weir
  • Building with accomodation facilities and laboratories
    Training forest building
  • Field data collection
    Field data collection
  • Measuring mast with meteo sensors
    Measuring mast
  • Measuring tower
    Measuring tower
Geographic

Coordinates: 

Latitude: 47.703700000000
Longitude: 16.282400000000
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Associated Data
2 dataset(s) in total:
Meteorological data from 1990 to 2017 for Rosalia, Lehrforst
Vegetation data of Rosalia Lehrforst, Austria, between the years 1977 and 1981