Experimental sites in the NIPHYS/CANIF project

The NIPHYS/CANIF sites Fig. 2.1 were chosen to represent a latitudinal, climatic and deposition transect through Europe containing conifer and broadleaf stands. The main species are Norway spruce, Picea abies L. (Karst.) and European beech, Fagus sylvatica L. In southern France, Picea and Fagus are lacking at suitable sites and were replaced by maritime pine, Pinus pinaster Ait. (P. maritima Lam.), Aleppo pine, P. halepensis Mill. and white oak, Quercus pubescens Willd. for some of the studies. F. sylvatica has its most northern distribution in southern Scandinavia. Therefore, in northern Sweden, F. sylvatica was replaced with birch, Betula pubescens Ehrh.