LTER-CWN

Long-Term Ecosystem Research Infrastructure for Carbon, Water and Nitrogen

Project start: May 2017

www.lter-austria.at/cwn/

Under the leadership of the Environmental Sciences Research Network (ESRN) of the University of Vienna, key national actors in long-term ecological research have joined forces to establish a new infrastructure for the collection of environmental data. The project aims to collect data on the effects of extreme climatic events on the carbon, water and nitrogen cycle at six measurement sites equipped with cutting-edge technologies.

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is funding the development and upgrading of the six sites within the scope of its call "R&D infrastructure funding". LTER-CWN is one of eight projects approved for funding under this programme, which was open for submissions in 2016.

Project partners:

Project partners in the five-year project (project volume: 1.96 million EUR, FFG funding: 1.67 million EUR) are:

• University of Vienna, Environmental Sciences Research Network (project coordination)
• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU Vienna), Institute of Soil Research (IBF)
• Environment Agency Austria (UBA-GmbH)
• Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Institut für Waldökologie und Boden
• University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology
• Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Deutschland)

LTER-CWN sites:

• ICP Forests / LTER Klausen-Leopoldsdorf, Lower Austria (operated by BFW)
• LTER Lake Neusiedler See, Burgenland (University of Vienna)
• LTER Pürgschachener Moor, Styria (University of Vienna)
• LTER Rosalia Research Station, Lower Austria (BOKU Vienna)
• LTER Stubai Valley, Tyrol (University of Innsbruck)
• LTER Zöbelboden, Upper Austria (UBA-GmbH)