Machuqueira do Grou - Portugal

Basic Information
Site Name
Machuqueira do Grou
Short name
Montado 03_MG
Country
Portugal
Web Address
LTsER Montado Platform
Operating Organisation
Machoqueira do Grou, C.R.L.
cE3c- Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Site Manager
Margarida Santos-Reis
Funding Agency
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Site Description
Machuqueira do Grou is one of the six research and monitoring stations of LTER-Montado, an umbrella site located in the Alentejo province in south Portugal (southwestern Iberia). The "Montado" represents an unique agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem (named "dehesa" in Spain) found only in the Mediterranean basin. These savannah-like landscapes are dominated by evergreen cork and/or holm oaks and were shaped over millennia of traditional land use practices. These multi-use forests are two-layered systems that combine, in a single space, forest harvesting, extensive livestock husbandry, pastures and/or cereal cultivation (the most evident economical revenues), with other traditional uses (hunting, beekeeping and mushroom picking). ...
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2023-07-25 08:07:49

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Non-reporting
Year Established
2011
Observed properties
ecosystem parameteratmospheric parameterbiological parameterbirdspresencediversityindexecosystemstructurefaunisticdiversityforeststructurenormalizedvegetationindexspeciespresenceairhumidityairtemperatureprecipitationintensitysolarradiationwindspeedcanopycoverrate
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER Europe✔This site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
LTER Portugal✔ (LTER_EU_PT_005)This site is a verified "LTER Portugal" member.
Photos
photo credits: Alzira Ramos
photo credits: Alzira Ramos
Geographic
1 km
3000 ft
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 39.1386 Longitude: -8.33305

Size
ca. 2500.00ha
Elevation (average)
150.00msl
Elevation (min)
79.00msl
Elevation (max)
173.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Terrestrial
Biome
Deciduous Forest
Ecosystem Type
Agricultural
Forest
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Biogeographical Region
Mediterranean Bio-geographical Region
EUNIS habitat
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G)
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G) » Broadleaved evergreen woodland (G2)
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G) » Broadleaved evergreen woodland (G2) » Mediterranean evergreen oak woodland (G2.1)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
15.00°C
Precipitation Annual
600.00mm
Geology
The entire watershed is on deep Miocene sands. Slopes between 0% and 5%, exceptionally up to 35%.
Vegetation
Cor oak (Quercus suber) woodlands
Soils
The main soil types include fluvisols, leptosols, and podzols.
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 without link to explicit catchment
Permanent Power Supply
Yes
Equipment
Observation devices » Measurement tower » In canopy
Data infrastructure » Data services » Other data services
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Paper
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Structured file
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Spatial data file (GIS)
Supporting infrastructure » Staff room at site » Unknown number of places
Supporting infrastructure » Lodging at site » Unknown number of beds
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (from site) » No data transmission from site
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (within site) » No within site data transmission
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Energy supply » Permanent Power Supply Location » Central station(s)
Equipment notes
This research and monitoring station of LTsER Montado Platform is located in a state-owned property that gives support to long-term research and monitoring actions, but physical infrastructures are managed by the owner company (Herdade da Machoqueira do Grou S.R.L.). The value is a rough estimate of infrastructure used.
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
regular car
Permanent Operation
Yes
Site Visit Interval
365
General Data Policy
The data provider must be offered co-authorship for publications using this dataset at least within the metadata description
Formal acknowledgement of the dataset providers
The opportunity to collaborate on the project using the dataset
Legal permission for dataset use is obtained
LTER Site Classification
Regular
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.