LTSER Silva Gabreta - Czechia

Basic Information
Platform Icon

Site Name
LTSER Silva Gabreta
Short name
LTSER Silva Gabreta
Country
Czechia
Web Address
http://www.silvagabreta.eu
Operating Organisation
Šumava NP Authority
Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
Site Manager
Zdenka Krenova
Funding Agency
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Site Description
The Šumava Biosphere Reserve, which includes the Šumava National Park, was established as a Czech LTSER platform in 2008. Its territory covers most of the Czech part of the Bohemian Forest (Šumava in Czech, Böhmerwald in German) along the historical border of Bohemia with Bavaria (Germany) and Austria. The Bohemian Forest creates the most extensive forest landscape in Central Europe, where primeval mountain forest remnants, glacial lakes, peat bogs, and mountain secondary grasslands are home to various communities of vegetation and animal species. The centre of this region is preserved as the Šumava National Park (680 km2). Human colonisation and exploitation of the Bohemian Forest has a long history accelerated during the Middle ...
Show more ...
Relationships to other sites
This site contains:
Last modified
2023-07-25 10:07:11

CC-BY-NC Logo

General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2008
Observed properties
ecosystem parameterwater parameterlandscape parametersoil parameterchemical parameterbiological parameterenvironmental parametercanopygapareadeadwooddecayingratedisturbancepatternecosystemstructureforeststructuregroundwaterlevelhabitatstructurespeciesturnovertreediameteratbreastheightvegetationreflectancechlorophyllcontentofwaterconductivitywaterdepthwaterlevelwaterqualitywatertablewatertemperaturelandcoverlanduselandscapecompositionlandscapeconfigurationlandscapefragmentationlandscapemetricssoilaciditysoilsolutionconcentrationsoiltexturesoilwiltingpointthicknessofsoilhorizontotalorganiccarbonacidneutralisingcapacitysoilpHsoilsolutionconcentrationcanopycoverratetreeconditionabioticheterogeneity
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
CZ-LTER✔ (LTER_EU_CZ_001)This site is a verified "CZ-LTER" member.
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER Europe✔This site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
EuroMAB✖The affiliation of this site with "EuroMAB" is not verified by the network on DEIMS-SDR.
Projects
ICP Waters
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Photos
not defined
not defined
Geographic
Marker
300 km
100 mi
View in site map
Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 49.0177 Longitude: 13.5792

Size
ca. 250000.00ha
Elevation (average)
1000.00msl
Elevation (min)
650.00msl
Elevation (max)
1450.00msl
Download

Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Terrestrial
Biome
Mixed Forest
Ecosystem Type
Forest
Temperate coniferous forests
Biogeographical Region
Continental Bio-geographical Region
EUNIS habitat
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G)
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G) » Mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland (G4)
Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G) » Mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland (G4) » Mixed fir - spruce - beech woodland (G4.6)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
4.20°C
Precipitation Annual
1090.80mm
Protection Level (IUCN category)
Category II – National Park
Site Type
Platform
Design of Experimentation
mainly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
not applicable
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
entire catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Equipment
Maintenance infrastructure » Snow clearing frequency » Monthly
Observation devices » Measurement tower » Less than 10 m above canopy
Observation devices » Temperature Controlled Container
Data infrastructure » Data services » Other data services
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Paper
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Unstructured file
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Spatial data file (GIS)
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Relational database
Supporting infrastructure » Transportation » Vehicle 2WD
Supporting infrastructure » Transportation » Vehicle 4WD
Supporting infrastructure » Staff room at site » 2 - 5 places
Supporting infrastructure » Lodging at site » > 10 beds
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (from site) » Cable based
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (from site) » Other transmission types
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (within site) » Telephone line
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (within site) » GMS/UMTS
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Energy supply » Permanent Power Supply Location » Central station(s)
Equipment notes
there are diffferent logging possibilities within LTSER platform - different capacity, prices, and locations
Accessible All Year
No
All parts of Site Accessible
No
Access Type
dirt road (4WD)
Permanent Operation
No
Operation Notes
different monitoring activities within LTSER platform have different sampling periods
Site Visit Interval
14
Maintenance Interval
14
General Data Policy
The data provider must be offered co-authorship for publications using this dataset at least within the metadata description
Data Policy Notes
There can be different regulations in data provide from different project activities.
LTER Site Classification
Extensive
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.