Location: White Carpathians
Altitude: 540 m above sea level
Average annual temperature (2009-2012): 8.37 °C
Average annual rainfall (2009-2012): 770.9 mm
Ecosystem: Beech forest (107 years old)
Research
- Long-term monitoring of energy and substance fluxes
- Researching physiological processes (photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration)
- Understanding the functioning of the beech 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 beech ecosystem to capture CO2 from the atmosphere
The ecosystem 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
- exemplary workplace of the European Center of Excellence CzechGlobe
