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 Wohlfahrt	Principal Investigator

Location

Latitude/Longitude

46.684284, 10.585237

Elevation

1550 m

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