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Douro Living Lab Platform
10098-Tsalapitsa 21/03/2023 18:30
Climate zones : Humid continental
Ecosystems : Agrosystem
The experimental station located in Tsalapitsa village (Plovdiv region), in the climatic region of East Central Bulgaria with suitable conditions for agricultural crops. Areas with Alluvial-Meadow soil type (Fluvisol) are identified as high risk due to their soil properties, shallow groundwater and cultivation of crops with intensive fertilization and irrigation.
Field experiment with two doses biochar addition and two rates of nitrogen fertilizer was conducted using the block method in four replications with maize. Monitoring the after-effects of biochar application in field experiment set in the second and third year. The main meteorological indexes are measured with meteorological station.
40004-Brno-Laboratory of metabolomics and isotope analyses 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Other
Ecosystems : Other
The metabolomics laboratory provides services of targeted and untargeted metabolome analyses in various biological matrices. Metabolomic analyses are performed using tandem analytical techniques: GC/MS and LC/HRMS with a hybrid LTQ Orbitrap XL mass spectrometer with high resolution and accurate molecular weight measurement. From the targeted analyses, the laboratory is providing the determination of sugars, fatty acids, volatile compounds, phenolic compounds and other primary and secondary metabolites (over 300).
The laboratory of isotopic analyses provides services of measurements of relative abundance of stable isotopes (13C/12C, 15N/14N, 34S/32S, D/H, 18O/16O) in soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. The analysis is performed using an isotopic ratio mass spectrometer ISOPRIME100 coupled with elemental analyser, and allows analyses of solid and liquid samples or with cryogenic preconcentration in gas samples.
AgriLeach 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Subartic
Ecosystems : Agrosystem
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AgriLeach Eastern Finland is located on main dairy production area in Finland and serves as an experimental platform for common agricultural practices related to dairying and grassland production but may also be used for other agriculturally related experiments. It is a leaching measurement field that consist of 16 repacked lysimeters and 16 surface runoff collectors located on the same plots. Experiments last from one to five years. The continuous data consists of water flow (both infiltrate and surface runoff), temperature, pH and other parameters measured in laboratory from collective water samples. Weather parameters including soil moisture and frost depth are continuously monitored at site.
Algological Research Laboratory (ALGOLAB) 21/02/2023 10:16
ALGOLAB Platform
AnaEE-ERIC 23/05/2023 15:32
Seism platform
Antwerp FATI 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid oceanic
Ecosystems : Agrosystem, Grassland, Shrubland
The Antwerp FATI is a platform to experimentally simulate the impact on ecosystems of future precipitation regimes, climate-warming and especially climate extremes such as intense droughts and heat waves (e.g. temperatures up to 10 °C above ambient). By using infrared heaters and automated rainout shelters in combination with programmable irrigation, the system can simulate such extreme events in the open air, in twelve 7 m² plots, under natural light and wind. Each plot can contain one large mesocosm unit, or many smaller ones in separate containers (in total > 300). This approach allows for studies with (i) manylevels per experimental factor and many replicates, (ii) multiple interacting factors, (iii) multiple biodiversity levels. Measurements: micro-climate (Tair, RH, incoming and outgoing radiation, etc.), canopy temperature with fixed infrared camera's, manual measurements.
Antwerp Meso-scale Ecotron 21/02/2023 10:16
Antwerp Meso-scale Ecotron Platform
Aquatic Metatron 21/02/2023 10:16
Ecosystems : River, Lake
The Aquatic Metatron is a unique device for simultaneously studying the effects of climate change (warming or cooling) and habitat fragmentation (aquatic and aerial) on the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. The simultaneous alteration of habitat structure and temperature in aquatic environments is unique in the world. Platform monitoring allows continuous measurements of ecosystem properties.
BIOBASE 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid oceanic
Ecosystems : Agrosystem
The Biobase platform is designed to evaluate long-term effects on biomass productivity with special focus on carbon and nitrogen balances of new productive and environmentally sustainable cropping systems as feedstock for biorefineries
Boreal Forest Regeneration platform 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Subartic
Ecosystems : Forest, Other
Boreal Forest regeneration platform (BoFoReg) is the only research nursery in the Northern Europe focusing on tree seedling production. It provides state of art facilities for studying the effects of abiotic and biotic factors on boreal tree species in the early phases of forest regeneration chain in controlled conditions, and for finding risk management methods related to the anthropogenic pressures. The major research themes include adaptation of processes along forest regeneration chain to climate change and changing operational environment, development of non-chemical plant protection methods and testing of sustainable growth media. Facilities include different growth facilities (greenhouses, seedling line, climate chambers with adjustable LEDs, freezing test chambers and a temperature-controlled room), and well-equipped laboratories for various purposes (plant physiology, molecular biology, tissue culturing, microscopy, soil studies, seed studies).
Bozhurishte 21/03/2023 13:46
Climate zones : Humid continental
Ecosystems : Agrosystem
Platform field's experiments are focused on establishing the effect on yields and soil of the application of two tillage systems, two increasing fertilizer rates and variants of integrated weed control over three field crop rotation of the type (wheat/triticale - maize - triticale/wheat). The experiments also aim to investigate the vulnerability to drought using the soil water balance simulation models for determining the “plant-soil-atmosphere” interactions as long-term crop evapotranspiration, net irrigation requirements, irrigation scheduling and risk of drought.
Brandbjerg (Climaite) 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid oceanic
Ecosystems : Grassland, Shrubland
Semi-natural grasslands/heathlands provide important ecosystem services like biodiversity, carbon and nutrient storage/buffering and human recreation. The short vegetation and the co-existence of many different plant and animal species and/or functional types make these ecosystems particularly valuable “model ecosystems”, in which key ecosystem processes, such as species interactions/competition and ecosystem-level biogeochemical cycling may be investigated. The Brandbjerg site builds upon the former CLIMAITE experiment (VKR-Centre of Excellence, 2005-2015), where the three major climate change factors CO2, warming and summer drought, were manipulated simultaneously. Since 2016, the new experimental setup provides a response surface across 24 plots (each 7 m2) of three treatment levels of drought (removing up to 66% of ambient precipitation). The greenhouse gas exchange is continuously monitored using ECO2fluX automatic chambers.
CENTS tillage and rotation experimental facility 21/02/2023 10:16
CENTS Platform
CES - Controlled Environmental System 26/05/2023 10:14
Climate zones : Mediterranean
Ecosystems : Agrosystem
Controlled environmental system (CES) platform includes:
1) Insectarium rearing chambers for raring of parasitic species (Bactrocerae oleae, Ceratitis capitata, Planococcus ficus, Drosophila suzukii, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, Philenus spumarius, Aleurocanthus spiniferus);
2) Facility for testing fo the efficacy of Plant Protection Products;
3) Glasshouses, greenhouses, poly-tunnels, screen houses, shades, insect-proof screen-houses, mother blocks tunnels, chambers, storage rooms capable to monitor and manipulate environmental conditions, such water/nutrient supply (amount, frequency, location), light (intensity, spectral range, photoperiod), humidity, temperature, atmospheric gas composition, inducing biotic and abiotic stresses.
4) This platform hosts plant pathogens collection.
CROPSYS - Long term experimental facility 21/02/2023 10:16
CROPSYS Platform
Cultivation Domes / Bily Kriz 21/02/2023 10:16
Cultivation Domes / Bily Kriz Platform
DTU-Ris Experimental fields 21/02/2023 10:16
DTU-Ris Experimental fields Platform
EcogenO 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Other
Ecosystems : Other
The EcogenO Genomics core facility supports you in all your NGS sequencing projects, from libraries to primary bioinformatics analysis. The platform also provides a wide range of other services related to high-throughput transcriptomics, antibiotic resistance gene detection, nucleic acid quality control (including large size) and single-cell technologies.
Ecotron DTU 21/02/2023 10:16
Ecotron DTU Platform
Ecotron Hasselt University 21/02/2023 10:16
Ecotron Hasselt University Platform
Ecotron IleDeFrance - Ecolabs platform 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid oceanic, Humid continental, Mediterranean, Subartic, Other
Ecosystems : Agrosystem, Grassland, Shrubland, Wetland, Lake
The Ecolab is a modular structure coupling together three environmental chambers and one laboratory room (see Figure 1 below). Each environmental chamber (13 m3 and 5 m2 ) can be independently controlled accurately for realistic climate and atmospheric conditions (air temperature and humidity, air CO2, O3 and O2 content, plasma and LED lighting). A mesocosm (1 m3 ) with temperature-control on three independent levels makes it possible to incubate natural or artificial ecosystems. This mesocosm can host both terrestrial and aquatic organisms and ecosystems (see specification table below for more technical details). A set of 5 Ecolabs are available on site, which makes up a total of 18 fully independent, environmental chambers for replicated experiments.
eDNA 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Other
Ecosystems : Other
The eDNA technical platform has been set up to allow scientists to perform large-scale analysis of environmental DNA via a metabarcoding approach. DNA metabarcoding refers to high throughput DNA-based identification of multiple species from environmental DNA. The main applications of this technique consist in diet analysis from feces, in biodiversity inventory from soil or water samples, and in palaeo-environment reconstruction using lake sediments and permafrost samples.
ETRS-European Tropical Research Stations 21/02/2023 10:16
ETRS Platform
Experimental station Domaninek - Open top chamber facility 21/02/2023 10:16
Experimental station Domaninek Platform
FLIS - Flying Laboratory of Imaging Systems 16/03/2023 07:14
Ecosystems : Forest, Agrosystem, Grassland, Lake
FLIS is state of art remote sensing infrastructure, which offers simultaneous data acquisition by four sensors. The Flying Laboratory of Imaging Systems (FLIS) consists of an airborne carrier, imaging spectroradiometers and a laser scanner. Photogrammetric airplane Cessna 208B Grand Caravan with two hatches serves as an airborne carrier. The basic sensor equipment consists of hyperspectral sensors CASI-1500, SASI-600 and TASI-600, produced by the company Itres. These sensors are pushbroom scanners that scan the area of interest by individual rows. All hyperspectral sensors are equipped with custom-made sensing chips to ensure higher the so-called "full well capacity" of the detector allowing a higher range of measured signal without saturation. Greater dynamic range allows easier detection of the objects scanned. FLIS is able to operate across the Europe. Hyperspectral sensors are annually calibrated.
FO3X 22/03/2023 11:22
Climate zones : Mediterranean
Ecosystems : Forest, Agrosystem
FO3X O3-FACE (Free-air O3 eXposure) is a multidisciplinary study to assess the effects of increasing tropospheric ozone and other stress factors on vegetation under open-air conditions. FO3X is an ecosystem-level manipulative research facility that ensures long-term operability, fully replicated treatment plots connected with state-of-the-art ecophysiology and genomics labs and is available for undertaking new collaborative projects. FO3X consists of nine 5x5x2m blocks in which the concentrations of tropospheric ozone and other stress factors (e.g., drought, nitrogen, pathogens) can be controlled. The design is a split-plot experiment that provides the ability to assess the effects of ozone and other stressors, alone and in combination, on many plant attributes, including growth, root characteristics, gas exchanges, biogenic volatile organic compounds, nutrients as well as antioxidants. At present, plants are potted but can be planted in the ground if needed.
Fytoscopes - Growth chamber facility, Brno 21/02/2023 10:16
Fytoscopes - Growth chamber facility, Brno Platform
Grassland drought experimental site Bílý Kříž 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid continental
Ecosystems : Grassland
The infrastructure is focused on drought experiments combined with other factors such as UV radiation, warming or land use. The main objectives of these experiments are to investigate and compare the drought and interactions with other factors in grassland ecosystem in the point of view of future climate scenarios.
Hyytiälä - SMEAR II 21/02/2023 10:16
Ecosystems : Forest, Lake
Hyytiälä-SMEAR II Platform (Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations) is situated in the Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station of the University of Helsinki. The site consists of a managed, 60-yr old Scots pine forest stand and a humic lake with forested catchment. The main idea of SMEAR type infrastructures is continuous, comprehensive measurements of fluxes, storages and concentrations in the land ecosystem–atmosphere continuum. The forest measurements are operated continuously since 1996, and include e.g. leaf, stand and ecosystem scale measurements of greenhouse gases, volatile organic compounds, pollutants (e.g. O3, SO2, NOx) and aerosols, in addition to full suite of meteorological measurements. The biogeochemical cycles and vegetation–soil–atmosphere interactions are studied both experimentally and with long-term observations. The site belongs to ICOS, ACTRIS and eLTER infrastructures.
Joensuu root laboratory 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Other
Ecosystems : Forest, Agrosystem, Grassland, Wetland
The Joensuu root laboratory is a platform for studying the effects of environmental conditions on above- and belowground plant processes, especially in the context of climate change. The platform consists of four walk-in growth rooms and six growing containers in each growth room. The soil temperature and moisture in the growing containers can be controlled independently from those of the air. Light conditions can be also controlled, as well. The annual cycle can be accelerated and typically, 2.5 growing seasons can be conducted within one calendar year. Soil conditions are recorded at three depths and a water table can be maintained. Plant measurements include a large variety of morphological, anatomical, physiological, and phenological parameters. A special feature is a minirhizotron camera for studying root growth. The platform has been used mostly for studying plants in environmental stress conditions, like responses of boreal forest trees to soil frost or water-logged soil.
Kainuu fisheries research station 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Subartic
Ecosystems : River, Lake
KFRS has 500 independently controlled experimental aquatic units, 3 scientific and 5 technical staff to facilitate the access to the site. Facility offers state-of-the-art techniques for manipulating pressures at stream and pond ecosystem level. Facility has RFID -monitoring devices to monitor fish movements for separate experimental units. Units are possible to manipulate several pressures in an experiment at the same time with the capacity to run long-term experiments ( > 1 year). Facility offers state-of-the-art techniques for manipulating benthic-pelagic exchange processes in aquatic systems, sediment processes and community dynamics and especially in fish studies. Several of these pressures are directly or indirectly related to climate change, precipitation changes or hydrological changes. Air and water temperature, water inflow and oxygen content and fish movements are measured automatically.
Kevo Subarctic Research Institute 21/02/2023 10:16
Kevo Subarctic Research Institute Platform
Lakkasuo-Siikaneva Peatland Experiment 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid continental
Ecosystems : Wetland
Lakkasuo-Siikaneva peatland experiment consists of two nearby peatland research sites located in proximity of Hyytiälä Research Station. Lakkasuo is an eccentric raised mire complex with exceptionally large diversity in ecohydrology, peatland site types, and vegetation. Lakkasuo has three water level manipulations: 1. Forestry drainage started in 1960’s, 2. Water level drawdown simulating climate change impact established in 2000. 3. Factorial experiment of water level drawdown and warming with open top chambers, established in 2008. Siikaneva is a large pristine peatland complex situated circa 7 km from Lakkasuo. The two intensive study sites in Siikaneva represent an open fen and an open bog enabling comparison of the main boreal peatland types. Both in Lakkasuo and Siikaneva biodiveristy, biogeochemical cycles and vegetation–soil–atmosphere interactions are studied both experimentally and with long-term observations.
Lammi Biological Station 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid continental, Other
Ecosystems : Forest, Agrosystem, Wetland, River, Lake
Lammi Biological Station Platform
LAUTARET 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Other
Ecosystems : Grassland
The research station of Lautaret Garden is a set of infrastructures and human resources at the service of alpine environmental research, spread over two sites open all year round. One is located on the campus of the University Grenoble Alpes (dept 38) with greenhouses, arboretum and experimental zone. The other is located at the Lautaret pass (dept 05) at an altitude of 2100m with an alpine botanical garden, experimental zone and natural area and provides field support, two laboratories, accommodation for 46 people, hydrology and climate data, botanical expertise and also multimedia room and meeting rooms for trainings, thematic schools, conferences, seminars. The research themes mainly developed are ecology of environments in relation with climate, socio-ecosystems, adaptation of living organisms, the physical environment and biogeochemical cycles. The station also welcomes foreign researchers within the framework of the transnational access.
LIRA (Long-term experiments Infrastructure for Research in Agriculture) 21/02/2023 10:16
LIRA Platform
LUKE Northern and Arctic Agrosystem monitoring sites 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Subartic
Ecosystems : Agrosystem, Grassland
The NorPeat platform (26 ha) is a cultivated peatland under normal grass rotation for beef cattle feed production. Environmental effects are monitored year-round including GHG emissions as well as flow and quality of subsurface drainage water and overflow. The field is divided into 8 plots and peat depth varies from 15 to 75 cm. Individual plots can be cultivated differently to monitor the effect of various manipulation options e.g. different crops, fertilization, management options etc. Water storage reservoir (0,7 ha) next to the field which is connected to subsurface drainage system allowing subsurface irrigation and manipulation of water table level in individual plots. The reservoir is filled with rainwater and water coming from the upper catchment area. Environmental parameters are monitored with multiple sensors and loggers to support the datasets of GHG emissions and leaching.
Mesodrome 21/02/2023 10:16
Mesodrome Platform
MULTI - EXPERIMENT 26/05/2023 09:54
Climate zones : Mediterranean
Ecosystems : Agrosystem
MULTIEXP is a multi-site of the experimental tests at different levels of studies.
It allows access to the fields experiment located at CIHEAM campus (Valenzano, 5 ha) of vegetable crops (e.g. tomato, potato, cucumber, leafy vegetables), olive and citrus orchards, table and wine grape vineyards;
to farm: an organic-precision- table grape system (Castellaneta Marina, 8 ha) and an integrated- precision- olive system (Maruggio, 5 ha);
to land scale: Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in the province of Lecce and large-scale water management in the province of Capitanata.
Fields and farms experiment offer possibility to study different cropping managements systems (conventional, organic, integrated, precision, agroecological) under different soil, water and pest management strategies and technologies including impacts of climate changes.
O3HP (Oak Observatory at the OHP) 26/05/2023 10:15
Climate zones : Mediterranean
Ecosystems : Forest
FOREST - O3HP Platform Oak Observatory at the Observatory of the Upper-Provence
Oulanka research station 21/02/2023 10:16
Oulanka research station Platform
Planaqua 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Other
Ecosystems : Lake, Other
Planaqua is an aquatic platform composed of 16 macrocosms of 750 m3 and different mesocosms from 1 to 15 m3 to do short to long term experimental ecology research.
PLEN Agro Ecosystems 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid oceanic, Other
Ecosystems : Agrosystem, Other
The PLEN Agro Ecosystems Platform is a large field experimental station "Højbakkegaard" in Taastrup Denmark.
Højbakkegård includes a range of permanent, long-term experiments in arable and bioenergy cropping systems what can be used to analyze long-term effects of fertilizer application, use of organic waste and fertilizers such as sewage sludge, cattale manure, household composts, straw biochar etc, crop rotations. It is also possible to start up new experiments with the help of the technicians and farm aquipment available at the site.
The experiments can be used to analze the effect of the treatments and agricultural management on various factors such as soil fertility, greenhouse gas emissions, other environmental emissions, accumulation of heavy metals and other pollutants, effect on microbial diversity and many more.
PLEN Phytotron 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Other
Ecosystems : Other
PLEN Phytotron Platform is an enclosed platform and include state-of-the-art automated greenhouses (a total of 2750 m2) covering two phytotrons, a Phenolab and Rhizotron. All growth parameters can be managed including precipitation, temperature and elevated CO2.
The services provided by the platform are the following:
Access to greenhouse table where light, temperature, moisture and CO2 can be controlled
Help setting up experiments from technical personnel, maintenance and cleaning up after experiment
Recording of photographs following the development of the plants in the greenhouses; multispectral- multifluorescence- and thermoimaging of growth and responses to stimuli in the PhenoLab
Potentially advanced measurements at the University campus, particularly at Copenhagen Plant Science Centre (genomics, metabolomics, other)
Puchabon 21/02/2023 10:16
Puéchabon Platform
Silkeborg lake experimental facility 21/02/2023 10:16
Silkeborg lake experimental Platform
SMEAR-Agri 24/02/2023 15:59
Climate zones : Humid continental
Ecosystems : Agrosystem
SMEAR-Agri Viikki station is built at Viikki Research Farm (in Helsinki, Finland) on fine textured mineral soil. The station offers an international top-level platform for research activities, and it provides continuous H2O, CO2, CH4 and N2O flux measurements by eddy covariance and chambers, automated soil measurements (temperature, moisture, electrical conductivity, redox, water table depth), vegetation, and atmospheric measurements of reactive gas concentrations, aerosols and aerosol precursors. All the measurements are conducted year-round over multiple years to decades.
TERRA-Ecotron 26/05/2023 09:49
Climate zones : Humid oceanic, Humid continental, Mediterranean, Other
Ecosystems : Agrosystem, Grassland
TERRA-ECOTRON is composed of 6 rooms (12 in near future) in which agro-ecosystems (plant, soil and roots) can grow under controlled climatic variables (solar radiation, air temperature and humidity, precipitation, CO2 and O3 concentration). There is a large hole in the rooms’ floors to insert the surface of the lysimeter filled with soil and on which 2 m² of vegetation (max 2m high) can be positioned. The lysimeters are 1.5 m deep to allow roots development as in natural conditions. Soil water potential and temperature are also conditioned at the bottom of the lysimeter to replicate the natural situation. The instrumental device allow the automatic temporal monitoring of several quantities like: soil temperature, water content and matric potential vertical profiles; amount of water leached, net fluxes of gases (CO2, H2O, N2O) and sensible heat from the ecosystem. The water samples coming from leaching and suction cups at different depths can be analyzed to quantify its quality
Terrestrial Metatron 21/02/2023 10:16
Climate zones : Humid continental, Other
Ecosystems : Grassland
An ecotron, located on the Commune of Caumont in Ariège (France), dedicated to the study of ecological and evolutionary processes inside semi-controlled environments. It comprises 48 mesocoms, each with a surface of 100-m² and a height of 2-m, each acting as a small ecosystem, with natural and diverse vegetation and insect communities and a relatively wide variety of thermal microhabitats (shaded, dense vegetation, sun-battered rocks and logs, and ponds). In each mesocoms, we can monitor and manipulate climatic conditions (temperature, humidity or solar radiation) with automatic motor-driven shutters and sprinklers. Species movements among units can further be manipulated with corridors between mesocoms which can be open or not to allow species to freely disperse from one unit to another. This apparatus is used to study the effects of climate and fragmentation on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of ecological systems.
Vestskoven 21/02/2023 10:16
Vestskoven Platform