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Biogeographical Region

  • Alpine Bio-geographical Region (3)
  • Atlantic Bio-geographical Region (2)
  • Continental Bio-geographical Region (2)

Co-located with

  • Critical Zone Collaborative Network (CZ Net) (1)
  • EUROPARC (1)
  • GERI (5)
  • Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) (3)
  • ICP Forests (1)
  • ILTER (7)
  • LTER-D (Germany) (1)
  • LTER Austria (3)
  • LTER Europe (8)
  • LTER France (1)
  • LTER Italia (Italy) (1)
  • LTER Norway (1)
  • SCANNET (1)
  • UK ECN (1)

Country

  • Austria (3)
  • France (1)
  • Germany (1)
  • Italy (1)
  • Norway (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)

EUNIS habitat

  • Coastal habitats (B) (27)
  • Constructed, industrial and other artificial habitats (J) (18)
  • Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens (E) (87)
  • Habitat complexes (X) (43)
    • Anchihaline caves (X34) (1)
    • Bentho-pelagic habitats (X30) (6)
    • Blanket bog complexes (X28) (1)
    • Brackish coastal lagoons (X03) (4)
    • Domestic gardens of city and town centres (X24) (4)
    • Domestic gardens of villages and urban peripheries (X25) (6)
    • Estuaries (X01) (2)
    • Intensively-farmed crops interspersed with strips of natural and/or semi-natural vegetation (X07) (10)
    • Land sparsely wooded with broadleaved deciduous trees (X13) (5)
    • Land sparsely wooded with coniferous trees (X15) (2)
    • Land sparsely wooded with mixed broadleaved and coniferous trees (X16) (2)
    • Large non-domestic gardens (X23) (1)
    • Large parks (X11) (8)
    • Mosaic landscapes with a woodland element (bocages) (X10) (5)
    • Pasture woods (with a tree layer overlying pasture) (X09) (4)
    • Raised bog complexes (X04) (2)
    • Saline coastal lagoons (X02) (3)
    • Small city centre non-domestic gardens (X22) (4)
    • Snow patches (X05) (3)
    • (-) Treeline ecotones (X20) (8)
    • Wooded steppe (X18) (1)
    • Wooded tundra (X19) (1)
  • Heathland, scrub and tundra (F) (35)
  • Inland surface waters (C) (138)
  • Inland unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats (H) (35)
  • Marine habitats (A) (33)
  • Mires, bogs and fens (D) (46)
  • Regularly or recently cultivated agricultural, horticultural and domestic habitats (I) (40)
  • Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G) (199)

Equipment

  • Data infrastructure (8)
  • Energy and data transmission infrastructure (5)
  • Maintenance infrastructure (2)
  • Observation devices (4)
  • Supporting infrastructure (6)

GEO-BON Biome

  • Fresh water lakes (3)
  • Fresh water rivers (4)
  • Terrestrial (8)

LTER Site Classification

  • LTSER (2)
  • Master (1)
  • Regular (5)

Land Use

  • other uses (1)

Observed Properties

  • agricultural parameter (4)
  • atmospheric parameter (8)
  • biological parameter (6)
  • chemical parameter (3)
  • (-) ecosystem parameter (8)
    • above ground biomass (1)
    • above ground net primary production (3)
    • alpha diversity (1)
    • animal species abundance (1)
    • animal species presence (1)
    • bacteria abundance (1)
    • bacterial diversity (1)
    • bacterial respiration (1)
    • bacteria presence (1)
    • bare soil cover (2)
    • below ground autotrophic respiration (1)
    • benthic invertebrates abundance (1)
    • beta diversity (1)
    • biodiversity loss (2)
    • birds abundance (3)
    • birds presence (2)
    • bryophytes cover (2)
    • bryophytes presence (3)
    • bryophytes species coverage (1)
    • canopy gap area (1)
    • change in population size over time (1)
    • community composition (3)
    • deadwood decaying rate (1)
    • deadwood position (1)
    • deadwood volume (1)
    • disturbance pattern (2)
    • diversity index (3)
    • dry matter content (1)
    • ecosystem structure (5)
    • emergence date (1)
    • faunistic diversity (3)
    • fish abundance (2)
    • floristic composition (3)
    • floristic diversity (6)
    • flowering date (1)
    • forest cover (2)
    • forest structure (4)
    • ground water level (1)
    • habitat complexity (1)
    • habitat disturbance (1)
    • habitat heterogeneity (1)
    • habitat structure (5)
    • habitat use (1)
    • inorganic nutrient content (3)
    • land cover type (2)
    • leaf area (1)
    • leaf area index (2)
    • leaf nutrient (1)
    • litter residence time (1)
    • macrofauna abundance (2)
    • microbial diversity (2)
    • microbial respiration (1)
    • naturalness (2)
    • normalized vegetation index (1)
    • percent carbon (1)
    • percent nitrogen (1)
    • plant cover (3)
    • plant density (1)
    • plant development stage (1)
    • plant distribution (1)
    • plant diversity (2)
    • plant nutrient (1)
    • plant species abundance (3)
    • plant species composition (5)
    • plant species presence (3)
    • plant species richness (2)
    • population changes over time (2)
    • population density (1)
    • population size (1)
    • soil macrofauna abundance (1)
    • soil microbial diversity (2)
    • soil organic residual (1)
    • soil solute amount (2)
    • species abundance (4)
    • species composition (6)
    • species group abundance (1)
    • species list (5)
    • species presence (4)
    • species richness (5)
    • species turnover (3)
    • stand density (1)
    • tree age (1)
    • tree basal area (1)
    • tree condition (2)
    • tree diameter (1)
    • tree diameter at breast height (2)
    • tree distribution (2)
    • tree height (1)
    • vegetation layer composition (4)
    • vegetation layer structure (3)
    • vegetation layer type (3)
    • vegetation pattern (1)
    • vegetation reflectance (1)
    • vegetation structure (1)
  • environmental parameter (5)
  • genetic parameter (1)
  • landscape parameter (4)
  • physical parameter (1)
  • remote sensing parameter (3)
  • soil parameter (8)
  • water parameter (5)

Projects

  • EU Directive (6)
  • Project (6)
  • UN Conventions and Programmes (3)

Protection Level

  • Category II – National Park (5)
  • Category IV – Habitat/Species Management Area (1)
  • Category V – Protected Landscape/Seascape/Area (2)

Site Status

  • Operational (8)

Site Type

  • not applicable (1)
  • Platform (2)
  • Stationary land-based site (5)

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