Ailao Mountain Research Station of Sub-tropical Forest Ecosystem - China

DEIMS.ID:

https://deims.org/13f23bec-9cc6-4b31-9032-fcbe850b448c

Basic Information

Site Name:

Ailao Mountain Research Station of Sub-tropical Forest Ecosystem

Short name :

Ailaoshan Station

Country (Site Location):

China

LTER Member Network:

China (CERN)

Contact: Site Manager:

yiping zhang

General Site Description:

Located in Jingdong County, Yunnan Province, China. The annual mean air temperature was 11.3 °C, with a minimum monthly mean temperature of 5.7 °C in January and a maximum monthly mean temperature of 15.6 °C in July. Average annual rainfall was 1778 mm, with 86.0% of this falling in the rainy season (May–October). The dominant tree species in the forest are Lithocarpus xylocarpus, Lithocarpus hancei, and Castanopsis wattii.

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General Characteristics, Purpose, History

Site Status:

existing

Year Site Established:

1981

Size :

6.00ha

Purpose of Site :

Study on structure, function and dynamics of forestry ecosystem in subtropical mountains in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and biodiversity.

History of Site:

NOT ready.

Research Topics:

Parameters:

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Geographic

Coordinates:

Latitude: 24.543900000000
Longitude: 101.027600000000

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Site Details

Ecosystem and Environmental Characteristics

Elevation Range FROM:

2 300.00msl

Elevation Range TO:

2 650.00msl

Elevation - Average:

2 500.00msl

Air Temperature: Average Annual:

11.00°C

Precipitation Annual :

1 931.00mm

Biome :

Evergreen Forest

GEO-BON Biome:

Terrestrial

Ecosystem and Land Use:

Forest
Evergreen Forest

Network Affiliation and Network Specific Information

Networks/Projects:

LTER

LTER related

LTER Site Code:

LTER-EAP-CN-24

LTER Site Classification/Category:

Regular

Protection Status and Resource Management

0 - 25%

Design and Scale of Site

Site Type (Spatial Design):

Simple Site

Scale of Observation:

plot within catchment

Design of Observation:

mainly observation

Scale of Experiments:

plot scale

Design of Experiments:

mainly experimentation

Infrastructure

Value of the Infrastructure :

100-700 k

Accessible All Year :

Yes

All parts of Site Accessible:

Yes

Permanent Power Supply:

Operation

Permanent Operation:

Yes

Data Management

General Data Policy:

The data provider must be offered co-authorship for publications using this dataset at least within the metadata description

Formal acknowledgement of the dataset providers

Data Policy URL:

www.cern.ac.cn

Data Storage Location :

Central

Data Storage Format :

Relational Database

Structured file or spreadsheet

Data services :

Data portal

Web Catalog Service (CSW)

Data Request Format :

Offline (Mail or Telephone)

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