Energy budget
Concentration of CO2, water vapor, albedo/radiation budget, soil heat flux, climate variables
Eddy-flux covariance station
Ecosystem function
Leaf Area (Index, LAI) LAI optical sensor Primary productivity (biomass above ground)
Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR); use of data from forest inventory Transpiration SAP-Flow-measurement
Matter budget
Wet / dry / bulk atmospheric deposition
Deposition samplers
Discharge surface water ; spectral absorption coefficient; DOC; nutrients
Optical sensors; multiparameter probes
Soil water chemistry
Soil water samplers and analysis
Water budget
Hydrological discharge: discharge, water temperature, pH, electrical conductivity
Standard gauging station including measurements of basic physical variables
Groundwater:
level, temperature, specific conductivity
Groundwater station Throughfall and stemflow Throughfall samplers, stemflow collection