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The field station offers the ability to perform field research in a variety of areas such as agricultural science, biology, agroecology, soil science and environmental science. At the infrastructure it is possible to do research in a variety of areas such as animal science, agricultural science, ecology, phenology, climatology, geochemistry, biology, agroecology, soil science and environmental science. Visitors and users of the infrastructure can get access to the land and a stream collecting drainage and surface runoff-water from the area, animals in the dairy facility, workshop, machines, measuring equipment and techniques, personnel, laboratories and working stations. All data that is gathered within the infrastructure can also be available for the user, most of with is continuously collected data, data from feeding trials, climate data, soil data, data from water samples of runoff-water, data from the catchment area around the station as well as GIS data and data from different long-term-trials. The predominant soil type at the experimental fields is sandy-silt, which is characterized by good water holding capacity and high capillarity, hence the crops seldom suffer from drought here. The humus content is high (3-6%) which means that the soil is not so dense, something that otherwise might be a problem for this soil type. Sandy soil is present in limited areas. We are active in four different locations in northern Sweden. At R\u00f6b\u00e4cksdalen we manage the station and on the other sites we collaborate with Lantm\u00e4nnen Lantbruk at L\u00e4nn\u00e4s (V\u00e4sternorrland), Torsta AB at \u00c5s (J\u00e4mtland) and Hush\u00e5llningss\u00e4llskapet Norrbotten och V\u00e4sterbotten at \u00d6jebyn (Norrbotten). The dairy barn was built in 2006 and has around 105 dairy cows of the breed Swedish red. The barn can e.g. be used for feed trials and among the equipment are two Greenfeed units that measure greenhouse gases (GHG) produced by the animals. The inclusion of the barn also offers farm scale studies of e.g. production of GHG or N or P flows.","citation":null,"relatedIdentifiers":null,"status":{"label":"Operational","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/elter_cl\/10772"},"yearEstablished":1954,"yearClosed":null,"relatedSites":null,"siteName":"R\u00f6b\u00e4cksdalen Field Research Station","shortName":"R\u00f6b\u00e4cksdalen","siteType":"Stationary land-based site","protectionLevel":null,"landUse":[{"label":"agriculture","uri":"https:\/\/inspire.ec.europa.eu\/codelist\/HILUCSValue\/1_1_Agriculture"},{"label":"other residential use","uri":"https:\/\/inspire.ec.europa.eu\/codelist\/HILUCSValue\/5_3_OtherResidentialUse"}],"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-08\/296_IMG_2212.JPG","alt":"Harvesting oats. 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