Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science. Invitation to use SITES in your research!

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1 Invitation to use SITES in your research! Anders Lindroth, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences BECC Annual Meeting 2016

2 Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science A national infrastructure for terrestrial and limnological field research Promotes field-based ecosystem research at world-class level Is available for all researchers on equal terms, regardless of affiliation

3 Initiated in 2013 by the Swedish Research Council in order to contribute to the strengthening of Swedish research based on measurements and experiments conducted in the field Jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council and the five host organisation, where SLU is the coordinator

4 Whitin SITES you will have access to unique, extensive and long term series of data field stations with state-of-the-art facilities, including support by well-qualified technical staff existing experimental setups areas for new field research experiments where you can be on site yourself or outsource an assignment to the station SITES infrastructural projects; SITES Water, SITES Spectral and SITES AquaNet

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6 SITES field research stations From north to south Nine field stations with research and monitoring operations distributed all over Sweden. Covering a range of ecosystems and climatic regions - tundra ecosystems, mountain areas, forests, wetlands, boreal catchments, inland waters, and agricultural land.

7 Weather and climate data series across Sweden where several dates back to the early 1900s. Climate stations are located in different landscape types, from alpines and glaciers, to mires, lakes, forest and agricultural fields.

8 Monitoring of mires includes e.g. fluxes of methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and export of carbon from the system by run off One mire provides the longest uninterrupted series of instrumented measurement of the total carbon and methane balance in the world

9 Unique opportunities for research on e.g. forestry operations, fertilization and tree growth. Ecosystem responses on man made changes e.g. transportation of air pollutants. Within the agricultural field, both short and long term programs on diversified cropping, reduced tillage and bio-energy crops and more.

10 Includes monitoring and measurements from small to large scales. e.g. growth of microbial communities in soil pores or water columns to landscape interactions of carbon exchange from the canopy to the atmosphere SITES Water and SITES AquaNet focus on biogeochemical processes in more detail

11 Time series from years of wild life monitoring. The data includes 100 s of parameters for wild life e.g. population indexes, reproduction data, number of observations and tissue samples. Included are also the interactions between fertilization and parasites, bugs and insects.

12 Phenological time series from intensive monitored forest trees and berries. Phenological monitoring for plants and migrating birds. Several SITES field research stations reports to the Swedish phenology network.

13 Research opportunities on mountain heaths, alpine areas and environment influenced by glaciers. Monitoring of glaciers, meteorology, hydrology, snow chemistry and permafrost. Data range back to the beginning of 1900s where some results comes from one of the most studied glaciers in the world.

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15 SITES Water is a long term monitoring program where the following parameters are measured in lakes and rivers: - Hydrological - Physical - Chemical - Biological parameters These unique multivariate series of measurements enables studies on e.g. how basic ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical patterns, processes, and regime changes are affected by climate change. SITES: Tarfala, Abisko, Svartberget, Röbäcksdalen, Erken, Asa, Skogaryd Coordinator: Leif Klemedtsson

16 Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) + TN NH 4+, NO 3 - and PO 4 -P DIC and methane Al, B, Ca, Cu, K, Mg, Na, P, S, Si, Zn, Mn and Fe F, Cl, NO 2, NO 3, SO 4, PO 4 -P UV absorbance ph Conductivity Chlorophyll a Particulate N and P (optional lakes) SITES water Layer 2: Water balance Layer 4: Chemical variables

17 SITES AquaNet is a standardised infrastructure for mesocosm experiments in lakes. The infrastructure is open for different scientific questions and can show how local differences in key variables across space, such as temperature, altitude and nutrients, affect the results of experimental manipulations. SITES: Svartberget, Erken, Asa, Skogaryd Coordinator: Helmut Hillebrand

18 The infrastructure Jetfloat- lego pieces Erken-platform Mesocosm-bags All platforms will be equipped with electricity and sensors for temperature, radiation, PH etc

19 SITES Spectral is a an infrastructure for collecting spectral data for ecosystem monitoring. Spectral Through this initiative SITES provides data for research related to e.g. climate change, carbon and greenhouse gas balances, phenology, general ecology and biodiversity and plant science. SITES: Tarfala, Abisko, Svartberget, Röbäcksdalen, Erken, Skogaryd, Asa, Lönnstorp Coordinator: Lars Eklundh

20 Measurements Fixed multispectral sensors collecting data at high time frequency Phenological cameras taking regular photographs UAVs collecting multispectral images regularly over the growing seasons

21 B2FIND Metadata registry & catalogue services B2SAF E SITES repository (data, metadata) SITES data flow, common services Finalized data products PI D AAI User 1 User 2 User 3 Data ingestion Metadata services Data discovery & access Visualization Station PIs QA/QC SITES Data Portal Usage tracking Data management Repository administration Thematic Centre SITES Water QA/QC Thematic Centre AQUANET QA/QC Diverse user communities, including data producers and other portals Preservation planning User community support Data licencing Thematic Centre NordSpec QA/QC High performance computing services B2STAG E PID Sensor data SITES data production units 21

22 Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science ABISKO Station manager Magnus Augner

23 Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science TARFALA Station manager Gunhild Rosqvist

24 Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science SVARTBERGET Station manager Charlotta Erefur

25 Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science RÖBÄCKSDALEN Station manager Jenny Viklund

26 Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science GRIMSÖ Station manager Gunnar Jansson

27 ERKEN Station manager Silke Langenheder

28 Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science SKOGARYD Station manager Leif Klemedtsson

29 ANEBODA/ASA Station manager Martin Ahlström

30 LÖNNSTORP Station manager Maria Ernfors

31 Contacts Director Prof. Anders Lindroth Assistans director Ida Taberman