At the core of SITES is a set of active and well-equipped research stations representing a variety of climatic zones and ecosystems across Sweden, including agricultural land, forests and wetlands as well as lakes and streams. SITES offers researchers well-functioning infrastructures for field research and runs several long-term data collection programs that provide researchers with contextual data on terrestrial ecosystems and inland waters. Data collected within SITES is freely available on the SITES Data Portal and can be used openly as long as the data is cited and acknowledged according to SITES data policy. Access to the SITES infrastructure is free of charge, where station staff can support researchers, e.g. with advice and technical assistance in setting up projects. If projects need assistance or support beyond what is provided by SITES as a VR-funded infrastructure, a fee is charged at the discretion of the station.
- Open data access: to long-term monitoring and field experiment data series on key ecosystem variables
- Physical access: users can conduct experiments and/or measurements at one or several of SITES Research Stations with technical and practical support provided by station staff
- Experimental access: users have access to long-term and large-scale ecosystem manipulation experiments beyond what is tractable for individual researchers or projects.
- Remote access: practical work, such as sample or data collection, is conducted on site by station staff
- Community access: a forum and platform for integrative ecosystem science community building, connections to international networks and infrastructures and access to resources, tools and data to develop and enable high-quality and integrated ecosystem science studies
Contact person:
Blaize Denfeld
blaize.denfeld@slu.se