Muntatschinig Pasture

Station ID

IT-MtP

Country code

Time zone offset

Description

This is a tower situated on a grassland in the Italian Alps in complex terrain (i.e. on a slope). The site is rainfed and grazed by a small number of cattle, horses and donkeys - there is a companion site just 500 m line of sight away which is irrigated and harvested instead (IT-MtM).

Main ecosystem

Grasslands

Mean annual temperature

6.5 °C

Mean annual precipitation

550.0 mm

Acknowledgements

Funder	Award number	Award	Start date	End date	Comment
Universit of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology; Province of Bolzano/Bozen within the frame of the HydroAlp, HiResAlp and CYCLAMEN projects

Current staff

Name	Role (ICOS vocabulary)	Start date
Georg Niedrist	Researcher
Georg Niedrist	Data Manager
Georg Wohlfahrt	Principal Investigator

Location

Latitude/Longitude

46.684284, 10.585237

Elevation

1550 m

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