CALM SITE R44

UMBOZERO

Site code

R44

Site name

Umbozero

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Responsible for data submission

Dmitri Zamolodchikov

Email Address

Dzamolod”-at-“cepl.rssi.ru

Institution/Organization

Center for Ecology and Forest Productivity, Moscow

Location description

Kola peninsula, Khibin mountains

Location Lat.

67.7723958

Location Lon.

34.1820458

Elevation avg. (m)

158

Methods Grid

100

Methods Other

Landscape Description

Plain at the II lacustrine terrace

Vegetation /Classification

Boreal wetland with shrub – dwarf shrub – lichen vegetation, with spruce open forest with birch and pine undergrowth at 27% of nods.

Soils (or Material)

Peat underlain by sand and gravel

Thaw depth measurements (year started)

2011

Air temp. measurements (year started)

43 km SW in Apatity (WMO 22213) since 1981

Snow cover measurements (year started)

not planned

soil temp. measurements (year started)

2011 (-3.9…24.8 (mean +3.2) °C at 0 cm depth)

soil moisture measurements (year started)

planned

general description of soil moisture (dry, moist, wet, saturated)

From moist to saturated, waterlogged in 7% of nods.

soil texture: if non organic describe texture, if organic indicate thickness of organic layer (cm)

up to 250 cm

SITE DESCRIPTION

Anchored and non-anchored permafrost both exist within the site. Monthly temperature (T) and snow depth data (d_s) for Apatity are shown below in the Table (according to www.rp5.ru weather data):

	01/11	02/11	03/11	04/11	05/11	06/11	07/11	08/11	09/11	10/11	11/11	12/11
T	-15.4	-20.7	-5.6	1.0	5.1	12.1	14.5	10.2	7.8	2.8	-2.6	-4.9
ds	42	55	50	17	3	0	0	0	0	0	7	20

SOIL DESCRIPTION: (predominant texture, i.e., ‘sand’, ‘gravel’, ‘peat’, etc.): Peat, underlain with sand and gravel

SAMPLING DESIGN AND METHOD:

1-ha grid consists of a square array of surveyed permanent stakes separated by 10 m, yielding an 11 × 11 array of sampling nodes on each grid. Thaw depth sampling was conducted by manual probing in four replications at each stake. The four values for each sampling point are averaged, yielding a maximum of 121 data points per grid per probing date.

REFERENCES:

Olyunina, O.S., Polyakova, E.I. & Romanenko, F.A. 2008. Diatom Assemblages from Holocene Sediments of the Kola Peninsula. Doklady Earth Sciences, 2008, 423A(9): 1343-1347.

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