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Co-located with

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Country

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EUNIS habitat

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  • Woodland, forest and other wooded land (G) (143)

Equipment

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GEO-BON Biome

  • Coastal (17)
  • Fresh water lakes (63)
  • Fresh water rivers (62)
  • Marine (17)
  • Terrestrial (186)

LTER Site Classification

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Land Use

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  • primary production (18)
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Observed Properties

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    • bare soil cover (7)
    • below ground autotrophic respiration (5)
    • benthic invertebrates abundance (28)
    • benthic invertebrates presence (22)
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    • bryophytes cover (7)
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    • canopy aerodynamic resistance (3)
    • canopy cover rate (6)
    • canopy gap area (21)
    • canopy growth rate (3)
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    • canopy structure (8)
    • canopy temperature (6)
    • canopy transpiration (6)
    • carbon dioxide concentration (9)
    • change in population size over time (6)
    • community composition (56)
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    • date of start of physiological maturity (1)
    • deadwood decaying rate (18)
    • deadwood position (8)
    • deadwood volume (13)
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    • diversity index (87)
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    • floristic diversity (70)
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    • forest structure (47)
    • fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (3)
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    • germination date (7)
    • ground water level (28)
    • groundwater permeability (6)
    • habitat complexity (7)
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    • habitat structure (37)
    • habitat use (9)
    • heat flow (10)
    • heterotrophic respiration (2)
    • home range area (2)
    • inorganic nutrient content (71)
    • land cover type (18)
    • latent heat (15)
    • leaf age (2)
    • leaf area (9)
    • leaf area index (12)
    • leaf nitrogen concentration (7)
    • leaf nutrient (7)
    • leaf size (4)
    • litter residence time (22)
    • litter size (6)
    • macrofauna abundance (16)
    • microbial biomass carbon (2)
    • microbial diversity (25)
    • microbial respiration (3)
    • naturalness (12)
    • normalized vegetation index (23)
    • percent carbon (5)
    • percent nitrogen (6)
    • percent organic carbon (5)
    • photosynthetically active radiation intensity (7)
    • phytoplankton abundance (9)
    • phytoplankton biomass (6)
    • plant cover (19)
    • plant density (7)
    • plant development stage (1)
    • plant distribution (11)
    • plant diversity (19)
    • plant nutrient (5)
    • plant species abundance (16)
    • plant species composition (71)
    • plant species presence (21)
    • plant species richness (17)
    • plant transpiration (3)
    • population changes over time (5)
    • population density (3)
    • population size (3)
    • potential evaporation (2)
    • radiation below canopy intensity (3)
    • relative abundance (1)
    • root biomass (7)
    • root density (1)
    • root dry weight (1)
    • root growth rate (1)
    • root length (1)
    • sapwood area (8)
    • seedling growth rate (2)
    • seedling survival rate (3)
    • seed yield (3)
    • soil heat flux (20)
    • soil macrofauna abundance (4)
    • soil microbial diversity (14)
    • soil organic residual (4)
    • soil solute amount (26)
    • species abundance (79)
    • species composition (77)
    • species group abundance (26)
    • species list (45)
    • species presence (64)
    • species richness (43)
    • species turnover (61)
    • stand density (5)
    • total carbon (6)
    • transpiration rate (4)
    • tree age (12)
    • tree basal area (10)
    • tree condition (10)
    • tree diameter (10)
    • tree diameter at breast height (47)
    • tree distribution (42)
    • tree height (13)
    • vapor pressure deficit (2)
    • vegetation layer composition (28)
    • vegetation layer structure (27)
    • vegetation layer type (27)
    • vegetation pattern (13)
    • vegetation reflectance (13)
    • vegetation structure (13)
    • zooplankton abundance (8)
    • zooplankton biomass (5)
  • environmental parameter (49)
  • genetic parameter (21)
  • landscape parameter (94)
  • physical parameter (16)
  • remote sensing parameter (19)
  • soil parameter (171)
  • water parameter (171)

Projects

  • EU Directive (99)
  • (-) Project (222)
    • ABC - UNEP atmospheric brown Cloud project (2)
    • AGAME (7)
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    • EcoPotential (H2020) (9)
    • ECOSS (Interreg IT-HR) (4)
    • eLTER (H2020) (142)
    • eLTER PLUS (H2020) (51)
    • EnvEurope (8)
    • EU Biodiversity Observation Network (2)
    • EuroFLUX (7)
    • ExpeER (21)
    • FLUXNet (20)
    • FutMon (36)
    • GEO-BON (1)
    • International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) (2)
    • International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (IGMETS) (2)
    • LIFEPLAN (18)
    • LTER-CWN (6)
    • NETLAKE Cost Action ES1201 (3)
    • NitroEurope (8)
    • OSPAR (3)
    • PermaFrance (1)
    • SoilTrEC (4)
    • Teabag (34)
    • TreeDivNet (3)
    • Water Supply Sanitation Technology Platform (WssTP) (1)
    • Zero Emission Nature Protection Areas (Zenapa) (1)
  • (-) UN Conventions and Programmes (111)
    • ICP Forests (Level I) (37)
    • ICP Forests (Level II) (58)
    • ICP Integrated Monitoring (8)
    • ICP Vegetation (1)
    • ICP Waters (8)
    • Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (29)
    • UNESCO World Heritage Site (7)

Protection Level

  • Category Ia – Strict Nature Reserve (6)
  • Category Ib – Wilderness Area (3)
  • Category III – Natural Monument or Feature (2)
  • Category II – National Park (30)
  • Category IV – Habitat/Species Management Area (36)
  • Category VI – Protected Area with sustainable use of natural resources (7)
  • Category V – Protected Landscape/Seascape/Area (50)
  • not applicable (3)

Site Status

  • Operational (258)
  • Planned (1)
  • Stand-by (1)

Site Type

  • not applicable (1)
  • Platform (42)
  • Stationary land-based site (217)

Search all active, formally acknowledged European LTER sites

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site Icon LTSER Platform Austrian Central Alps (ACA) - Austria
2026-03-26
site Icon Lammi LTER - Finland
2026-03-13
site Icon Collelongo-Selva Piana ABR1 - Italy
2026-03-09
site Icon Rothamsted - United Kingdom
2026-02-04
site Icon LTSER Platform Pannonischer Raum - Austria
2026-01-26
site Icon Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein - Austria
2026-01-19
site Icon Gesäuse-Johnsbachtal - Austria
2026-01-19
site Icon TERENO - Eifel Lower Rhine Valley - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon TERENO Harz/Central German Lowland LTER - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon Pallas LTER observatory - Finland
2025-12-15
site Icon Solling - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon National Park Hunsrück-Hochwald - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon National Park Hainich - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon National Park Berchtesgaden - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon National Park Bavarian Forest - Germany
2025-12-15
site Icon DFG Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research - Germany
2025-12-11
site Icon Darss-Zingst Bodden - Germany
2025-12-11
site Icon Helgoland Roads - Germany
2025-12-11
site Icon Rhine-Main-Observatory - Germany
2025-12-11

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