Location: Drahanská vrchovina Upland
Altitude: 625 m above sea level
Average annual temperature (2012): 8.15 °C
Average annual rainfall (2012): 631 mm
Ecosystem: Spruce stand (113 years old)
Research
- Long-term monitoring of energy and substance fluxes
- Researching physiological processes (photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration)
- Understanding the functioning of the spruce ecosystem 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 ecosystem station is
- part of the international network of workplaces for long term ecological research ILTER (International Long Term Ecological Research)
- part of the national research and development infrastructure for carbon monitoring in the Czech Republic – CzeCOS
