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| Biosphere Reserve Information | ||||
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SUMAVA |
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| General Description |
The Sumava Biosphere Reserve includes a substantial part of the north-east facing Bohemian Forest, a large Hercynian middle-mountain range that straddles the border between the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. The biosphere reserve is situated adjacent to the Bayerischer Wald Biosphere Reserve in Germany. The Bohemian Forest is in the most extensive continuous forest of Central Europe. Three principal zonal vegetation units can be distinguished: belts of species-rich beech forests, acidic montane beech forests, and climax spruce forests. Forests, meadows and pastures as well as bogs are characteristic of Sumava. Within the biosphere reserve, the Šumava Peatlands were designated as a Ramsar site in 1993, including mountain raised bogs, valley bogs, waterlogged spruce forests and riparian wetlands of the River Vltava. Tourism in the Sumava Biosphere Reserve and National Park is a main source of income for the about 24,500 inhabitants of the biosphere reserve (1989). The area was part of the tourism monitoring project in Czech national parks (1997 - 2001). |
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| Major ecosystem type | Mixed mountain and highland systems | |||
| Major habitats & land cover types | Montane raised peat-bogs characterized by Pino rotundatae - Sphagnetum communities; natural mixed beech-spruce-fir forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies and Abies alba; montane climax spruce forests with communities of Picetum hercynicum; montane grasslands with Polygonum bistorta, Cirsium heterophyllum and Gentiana pannonica; forest plantations of Picea abies | |||
| Location | 49°01'N; 13°34'E | |||
| Area (hectares) | ||||
| Total | 167,117 | |||
| Core area(s) | 42,224 | |||
| Buffer zone(s) | 68,893 | |||
| Transition area(s) when given | 56,000 | |||
| Altitude (metres above sea level) | +470 to +1,378 | |||
| Year designated | 1990 | |||
| Administrative authorities | Administration of the Sumava National Park and Landscape Protected Area | |||
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| Brief description |
Multidisciplinary basic and applied research Air pollutant/acidic deposition Climatological monitoring Boreo-alpine insects of north and central European peatlands Ecological monitoring Hydrobiology of lake systems program Genetics diversity of forest tree species |
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| Abiotic | Acidic deposition/Acid rain, climate, monitoring/methodologies, pollution, pollutants. | |||
| Biodiversity | Biodiversity, biology, ecology, freshwater/inland water, genetic resources, invertebrates/insects/spiders, methodologies, plants, wetlands. | |||
| Socio-economic | n.a. | |||
| Integrated monitoring | Interdisciplinary studies. | |||
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| Contact address |
Jiri Manek Sumava Biosphere Reserve Administration ulice l. maje 260 385 01 Vimperk Czech Republic |
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| Telephone | (42.339) 450 111 (42.339) 450 227 |
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| Fax | (42.339) 413 019 | |||
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vladimir.zatloukal@npsumava.cz manek@npsumava.cz |
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| Web site | www.npsumava.cz | |||
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| Last updated: 3/9/2005 |
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