The SITES 2023 Calendar theme is “Data in Focus”. The openly available data produced within SITES and stored on the SITES Data Portal is the “golden thread” of the infrastructure, allowing users access to ecosystem data that covers diverse habitats and climate zones across geographical gradients in Sweden. Each month follow along as we highlight a unique SITES dataset.
This summer, drone flights were carried out by SITES Spectral over the Följemaden area in Skogaryd. The Följemaden area is part of a re-wetting experiment to investigate measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by soil drainage. The experiment was reported in a previous SITES news item.
On August 8th an Eddy Covariance (EC) flux tower was installed at Röbäcksdalen. This pilot project is a collaboration between Röbäcksdalen and Svartberget SITES stations, where the latter provides the tower, which is led by Matthias Peichl at the Department of Forest Ecology Management at SLU in Umeå. The location of the EC flux tower is on one of the larger fields at Röbäcksdalen station and is conveniently located near one of the SITES Spectral mast and between two of the sampling points in SITES Water.
The SITES 2023 Calendar theme is “Data in Focus”. The openly available data produced within SITES and stored on the SITES Data Portal is the “golden thread” of the infrastructure, allowing users access to ecosystem data that covers diverse habitats and climate zones across geographical gradients in Sweden. Each month follow along as we highlight a unique SITES dataset.
The joint AquaNet and AQUACOSM-plus experiments at SITES Asa and Svartberget have been running for about a month now (details about the project start are reported here).
Wildlife cameras have received a lot of attention in the last decade, and many research projects and practical applications using camera traps are now running. Cameras are surrounded by high hopes that these methods will make various wildlife surveys more effective, for example, since they may replace some time consuming field work. A scientifically proper use of camera trap data may, however, be tricky, and the topic constitutes a research field in itself.
The SITES 2023 Calendar theme is “Data in Focus”. The openly available data produced within SITES and stored on the SITES Data Portal is the “golden thread” of the infrastructure, allowing users access to ecosystem data that covers diverse habitats and climate zones across geographical gradients in Sweden. Each month follow along as we highlight a unique SITES dataset.
At Stordalen, a replanted clear-cut site within the SITES station Skogaryd Research Catchment, a new 16 m high tower has been installed for continues monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions. The tower overlooks a young plantation forest, replacing a smaller tower that has been outgrown by the trees. At Stordalen, researchers from Lund university are measuring the net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of carbon dioxide (CO2) at a clear-cut forest site using the time-tested Eddy Covariance (EC) method.
The next round of the joint AquaNet and AQUACOSM-plus experiments are kicking-off! This time around the experiments will take place at Asa Research Station and Svartberget Research Station with a focus on functional and compositional consequences of different salinity disturbance regimes on plankton communities. The experiment is a follow up to the GLEON Salt experiment in 2018 and will run from mid-June to the end of July.
The Abisko Scientific Research Station field season started in earnest on June 1st. The station will be fully occupied in July, and the occupancy will remain high even in August and September. The ten-bed field hut in Latnjajaure will have researchers on-site throughout the summer.