Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo - Portugal

Basic Information
Site Name
Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo
Short name
Montado 01_HRA
Country
Portugal
Web Address
LTsER Montado Platform
Operating Organisation
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
Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo 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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2025-01-07 11:01:56

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2011
Observed properties
ecosystem parameteratmospheric parameterlandscape parameterbiological parameterbirdspresencediversityindexecosystemstructurefaunisticdiversityfloristicdiversityforeststructurenormalizedvegetationindexplantspeciescompositionspeciesabundancespeciescompositionspecieslistspeciespresencespeciesturnovertreediameteratbreastheightvegetationlayercompositionvegetationlayerstructurevegetationlayertypeairhumidityairtemperatureprecipitationintensitysolarradiationwindspeedlandcoverlanduselanduseintensitylandscapecompositionlandscapeconfigurationcanopycoverrate
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER Europe✔This site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
LTER Portugal✔ (LTER_EU_PT_003)This site is a verified "LTER Portugal" member.
Photos
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Geographic
Marker
500 m
2000 ft
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 38.1069 Longitude: -8.57045

Size
ca. 221.00ha
Elevation (average)
200.00msl
Elevation (min)
150.00msl
Elevation (max)
240.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Fresh water rivers
Terrestrial
Biome
Evergreen Forest
Ecosystem Type
Agricultural
Forest
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Rivers
Small rivers
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
16.00°C
Precipitation Annual
500.00mm
Geology
The property lies in the western limit of the hercinic schists of the Paleozoic. Slopes between 5% and 10% (1/3 of the property) and from 20 to 45% (2/3 of the property).
Vegetation
Cork oak (Quercus suber) woodland.
Soils
The main soil type is a skeletal lithosol.
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 » No tower on site
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 » > 5 places
Supporting infrastructure » Lodging at site » > 10 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
The value is a rough estimate of infrastructures used.
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
dirt road (4WD)
Permanent Operation
No
Site Visit Interval
60
General Data Policy
Formal acknowledgement of the dataset providers
The opportunity to collaborate on the project using the dataset
The dataset provider is given a complete list of all products that make use of the dataset
Legal permission for dataset use is obtained
LTER Site Classification
Regular
Related Resources on DEIMS-SDR
3 dataset(s) in total:
Air Humidity in Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo R&M LTsER Montado
Daily meteorological data for Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo (LTER_EU_PT_003) (LTsER Montado parent site)
Rainfall in Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo R&M LTsER Montado
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.