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It springs at an altitude of about 1,400 meters in the Giant Mountains in the north of the Czech Republic. It flows through eastern, middle, and northern Bohemia, and its catchment area includes most of Bohemia. The Elbe traverses the northeastern part of Germany and flows into the North Sea. The total river length is 1,094 km. In the Czech Republic, the monitored river length is 371 km and the catchment area includes 49,933 km2. The average flow at the Czech-German borders is 311 m3 s-1. Many weirs dam the watercourse of Elbe River in the Czech Republic. This artificial intervention is crucial for the characteristics of the riverbed, its width, depth, and bottom substrate. The width of the riverbed in the monitored area ranges from approx. 10 m on the upper course to approx. 150 m on the lower course and river sections above the weirs. The depth of the river varies from 0.5 m in the upper parts and below the weirs to more than 5 m in the lower course and above the weirs. The bottom substrate varies from the stony, gravelly, and sandy fractions in shallow and fast-running sections to muddy\/silty fractions in slow-running sections above the weirs. The main tributaries of the Elbe in Bohemia are Metuje, Orlice, Jizera, Plou\u010dnice, Vltava, Oh\u0159e and B\u00edlina rivers. \r\nThe catchment area is densely populated. The river is exposed to various sources of pollution (organic, agricultural, and industrial) and hydromorphological pressures (straightening, shortening, regulation of meanders, and fragmentation of river continuity).  There are seven permanent monitoring sites on the Elbe River in the Czech Republic: D\u011b\u010d\u00edn (river kilometer 747.9), Litom\u011b\u0159ice (796.9), Ob\u0159\u00edstv\u00ed (842.1), Lys\u00e1 nad Labem (878.8), Valy (954.7), Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 (994.4) and Vest\u0159ev (1051).\r\nThe Elbe basin long term environmental research has been organised by the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic and cooperation institutions since 1993. More than 600 physicochemical parameters, including sensory properties of water, are regularly monitored in at least nine different types of matrices (water, sediment, periphyton, floats, sedimentable floats, benthos, fish tissues, fish fry, and Dreissena polymorpha tissue) and using passive samplers. Among the main monitored characteristics belong balances of macroelements (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus), concentrations of inorganic salts, heavy metals and various organic pollutants such as pesticides, personal care products (including drugs) and other anthropogenic substances in the environment. Characteristics such as abundance and species composition are regularly monitored in fish, macrophytes, macrozoobenthos, phytobenthos and plankton.\r\n","citation":null,"relatedIdentifiers":null,"status":{"label":"Operational","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/elter_cl\/10772"},"yearEstablished":1993,"yearClosed":null,"relatedSites":null,"siteName":"Elbe River","shortName":"Elbe CZ","siteType":"Stationary land-based site","protectionLevel":[{"label":"not applicable","uri":"http:\/\/dd.eionet.europa.eu\/vocabularyconcept\/cdda\/IucnCategoryValue\/notApplicable"}],"landUse":[{"label":"aquaculture and fishing","uri":"https:\/\/inspire.ec.europa.eu\/codelist\/HILUCSValue\/1_4_AquacultureAndFishing"},{"label":"other industry","uri":"https:\/\/inspire.ec.europa.eu\/codelist\/HILUCSValue\/2_5_OtherIndustry"},{"label":"primary production","uri":"https:\/\/inspire.ec.europa.eu\/codelist\/HILUCSValue\/1_PrimaryProduction"},{"label":"secondary 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