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Grimsö Wildlife Research Station

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https://www.slu.se/en/departments/ecology/resources/grimso-wildlife-research-station/

Station Features

Opening year: 1974 Status: Open
  • Type of station: Station
  • Operational period: Continuous
  • Name of station owner: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
  • Type of owner: University
  • Name of managing institution: Dept. of Ecology
  • Station owner country: Sweden
  • Station latitude: 59,72868000
  • Station longitude: 15,47249000
  • Country (station location): Örebro county
  • Altitude of station: 120 m a.s.l
  • Min. altitude within study area: 85 m a.s.l
  • Max. altitude within study area: 172 m a.s.l
  • Nearest town/settlement: Riddarhyttan
  • Distance to nearest town/settlement: 12 km
  • Distance to nearest public transport facility (Airport, Ferry terminal, Train station, Bus station): 27 km
  • Distance to nearest research station: 228 km
  • Maps available at station: https://www.google.se/maps/place/Sveriges+Lantbruksuniversitet+SLU+Grims%C3%B6+forskningsstation/@59.7280069,15.4697622,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x465dc84e947602cd:0x235930a432044ba2!8m2!3d59.7280042!4d15.4719509
  • Climate zone: Boreal
  • Mean annual temperature: 4,1 °C
  • Mean temperature in February: -5,2 °C
  • Mean temperature in July: 16,3 °C
  • Snow free period (month to month): May-November

Facilities

  • Area under roof: 400 m²
  • Max. number of visitors at a time : 35
  • Showers: Yes
  • Laundry facilities: Yes

Science

  • Transnational Access: No
  • Remote Access: No
  • INTERACT Virtual Access: No
  • Climate
    • Snow
    • Rain
    • Hail
  • Features in the facility area
    • Permanent snowpatches
    • Mountain
    • Valley
    • Lake
    • River
    • Shoreline
    • Tree line
    • Polar deserts/semi-deserts
    • Shrub tundra
    • Gramminoid tundra
    • Forest tundra
    • Peatlands
    • Wetlands
    • Palsa mires
    • Deciduous forest
    • Evergreen forest
    • Human settlements or resource use in the area
    • Arable land
    • Other
  • Main science disciplines
    • Astronomy
    • Atmospheric sciences
    • Cryology
    • Geology
    • Hydrology
    • Limnic biology
    • Marine biology
    • Terrestrial biology
    • Human biology
    • Anthropology
    • Archaeology
    • Sociology
    • Climate change
    • Environmental science (incl. pollution)
    • Oceanography
    • Agriculture
    • Animal husbandry
    • Fisheries
    • Forestry
    • Hunting
    • Tourism
  • Housing and accomodation
    • Showers
    • Laundry facilities
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • Municipal grid
    • Diesel/oil/gas
    • Wood
    • Solar
    • Wind
    • Water
    • Geothermal
    • Biofuel
    • Other
  • Workshop facilities
    • Metal workshop
    • Wood workshop
    • Plexiglas workshop
    • Staff available to assist with constructions
  • Communication
    • Telephone
    • Satellite phone
    • VHF
    • E-mail
    • Internet
    • Computer
    • Printer
    • Scanner
    • Fax
  • Aircraft landing facilities
    • Helipad
  • Permitting issues categories
    • Permits required for studies
    • Permits required for access to the station
  • Meteorology
    • Air temperature
    • Air humidity
    • Air pressure
    • Wind velocity
    • Wind direction
    • Precipitation
  • Energy balance and radiation
    • Energy balance
    • Short wave incoming
    • Short wave outgoing
    • Long wave incoming
    • Long wave outgoing
    • Net radiation
    • UV-B
    • Multi-spectral
    • Cloud cover/hours of sunshine
  • Vegetation
    • Flowering phenology
    • Amount of flowering
    • NDVI (plot/transect)
    • Landscape NDVI (from satellite images)
    • Vascular plant community composition
    • Bryophyte community composition
    • Lichen community composition
    • Fungi community composition
    • Berry production
    • Aerobiological monitoring (pollen, spores, etc.)
    • Species list (community composition)
  • Birds
    • Abundance
    • Distribution
    • Phenology
    • Breeding birds
    • Nest initiation phenology
    • Nest predation rates
    • Species list (community composition)
  • Mammals
    • Mammal abundance
    • Mammal distribution
    • Mammal reproduction
    • Mortality
    • Predation
    • Physiology
    • Species list (community composition)
  • Genetics
    • Collection of genetic material
  • Diseases
    • Mammals
    • Birds
    • Fish
    • Vegetation
    • Other
  • Pollution
    • Pollution measurements in vegetation
    • Pollution measurements in water
    • Pollution measurements in mammals (body burdens, biomarkers)
    • Pollution measurements in birds (body burdens, biomarkers on both adults and offspring e.g. egg shell thinning, macro plastic in nests/in body)
  • Parasites
    • Mammals
    • Birds
    • Fish
    • Vegetation
    • Other

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Grey colours are WMO Climate Normals including maximum and minimum values. Blue colours are individual years.

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Climate data for the stations where extracted via Copernicus Climate Data Store, from the global gridded reanalysis product:
ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1940 to present. Description and source code: Roemer J.K. 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10214922 Data Source: Hersbach et al. 2023. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS), https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

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