Location: Bohemian-Moravian Highlands
Altitude: 545 m above sea level
Average annual temperature (1961-1990): 7.1 °C
Average annual rainfall (1961-1990): 621 mm
Research
- Long-term monitoring of energy and substance fluxes
- Researching physiological processes (photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration)
- Understanding the functioning of the agroecosystem as a whole and predicting its future behavior in changing climate conditions
- Proposals for measures to maintain, or more precisely to increase the ability of the spruce ecosystem to capture CO2 from the atmosphere
The station is
- part of the European infrastructure of the ICOS project (Integrated Carbon Observation System) that is integrated into the international research infrastructure ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures)
- part of the national research and development infrastructure for carbon monitoring in the Czech Republic – CzeCOS
