Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science - SITES

SITES is a nationally co-ordinated infrastructure for terrestrial and limnological field research.

SITES extends throughout Sweden with different ecosystems and climatic zones, from agriculture lands, forest, cultivated forest to mires, streams, lakes and alpines.

SITES offers all scientists to use participating field research stations. Either you can be on site yourself or outsource an assignment to the technical staff at the station. You also have the opportunity to use existing data collected at the stations. There are, in a number of areas of research, extensive and long series of data. Read more about what SITES provides here.

Within SITES three new infrastructures has been initiated and is now under development: SITES Water, SITES AquaNet och SITES Spectral.

SITES offers new opportunities in the field based research, read more about how you can use the infrastructure SITES in your research.

Explore Tarfalas contribution to SITES Water program of lakes. A 52 m deep lake with summer temperature of +4°C.

Explore the measurement programs in SITES here.