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There are two interesting projects that use both SITES Lönnstorps Research Station and the Plant Protein Factory in Alnarp.

The SITES 2023 Calendar theme is “Data in Focus”. The openly available data produced within SITES and stored on the SITES Data Portal is the “golden thread” of the infrastructure, allowing users access to ecosystem data that covers diverse habitats and climate zones across geographical gradients in Sweden. Each month follow along as we highlight a unique SITES dataset.

At the Gothenburg university research infrastructure, Skogaryd Research Catchment (SRC), not only is research conducted but also education. Every year different courses from environmental and Earth science programs, from University of Gothenburg and other universities, visit SRC for one or several days.

Several inflows to Lake Bolmen are of interest to study to understand the brownification of the lake. The inflow river, Ryds Å, entering the lake south east of Bolmen, flows through an old peatland, Äspenäs. The peatland is thought to have an impact on the color of the water. There is no previous data on the brownification of Ryds Å, nor about its contribution of brown-colored water to the lake. In general, the available data on the hydrology of the river and its catchment are very sparse.

The SITES 2023 Calendar theme is “Data in Focus”. The openly available data produced within SITES and stored on the SITES Data Portal is the “golden thread” of the infrastructure, allowing users access to ecosystem data that covers diverse habitats and climate zones across geographical gradients in Sweden. Each month follow along as we highlight a unique SITES dataset. 

This summer, drone flights were carried out by SITES Spectral over the Följemaden area in Skogaryd. The Följemaden area is part of a re-wetting experiment to investigate measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by soil drainage. The experiment was reported in a previous SITES news item.

On August 8th an Eddy Covariance (EC) flux tower was installed at Röbäcksdalen. This pilot project is a collaboration between Röbäcksdalen and Svartberget SITES stations, where the latter provides the tower, which is led by Matthias Peichl at the Department of Forest Ecology Management at SLU in Umeå. The location of the EC flux tower is on one of the larger fields at Röbäcksdalen station and is conveniently located near one of the SITES Spectral mast and between two of the sampling points in SITES Water.

The SITES 2023 Calendar theme is “Data in Focus”. The openly available data produced within SITES and stored on the SITES Data Portal is the “golden thread” of the infrastructure, allowing users access to ecosystem data that covers diverse habitats and climate zones across geographical gradients in Sweden. Each month follow along as we highlight a unique SITES dataset.  

The joint AquaNet and AQUACOSM-plus experiments at SITES Asa and Svartberget have been running for about a month now (details about the project start are reported here).

Wildlife cameras have received a lot of attention in the last decade, and many research projects and practical applications using camera traps are now running. Cameras are surrounded by high hopes that these methods will make various wildlife surveys more effective, for example, since they may replace some time consuming field work. A scientifically proper use of camera trap data may, however, be tricky, and the topic constitutes a research field in itself.