World Species : Protected Area : Osthertogenwald autour de Raeren (Raeren)

Osthertogenwald autour de Raeren (Raeren)

Location:	Belgium
Area:	996 acres (403 hectares)
Species:	All Endangered Invasive
Climate:	View Climate Data
Land Use:	View Land Use Data
Köppen climate classification:	Cfb (Climate: warm temperate; Precipitation: fully humid; Temperature: warm summer)
Natura 2000 Data Sheet:	View Data Sheet Explanatory notes

Ecoregions

Atlantic mixed forests
Western European broadleaf forests

Soils

— Protected Area Boundary

	A						B

Share	40 %	20 %	20 %	10 %	5 %	5 %	50 %	45 %	5 %
Soil Type	Stagnic Luvisols	Dystric Cambisols	Eutric Cambisols	Eutric Fluvisols	Rendzic Leptosols	Umbric Leptosols	Dystric Cambisols	Gleyic Cambisols	Fibric Histosols
Topsoil Texture	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Fine
Reference Depth	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	30 cm	30 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm
Drainage	Poor	Moderately well	Moderately well	Poor	Imperfectly	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Poor	Very poor
Available Water Capacity	150 m	50 m	150 m	150 m	15 mm	15 mm	50 m	150 m	150 m
Phase 1		Gravelly			Stony	Stony	Stony	Fragipan
Phase 2							Gravelly
Root Obstacle	60 - 80 cm	60 - 80 cm	60 - 80 cm	None to 80 cm			60 - 80 cm	40 - 60 cm	None to 80 cm
Impermeable Layer	80 - 150 cm	None to 150 cm	None to 150 cm	None to 150 cm			80 - 150 cm	80 - 150 cm
Soil Water Regime	Wet within 80 cm for 3 to 6 months, but not wet within 40 cm for over 1 month	Wet within 80 cm for 3 to 6 months, but not wet within 40 cm for over 1 month	Wet within 80 cm for 3 to 6 months, but not wet within 40 cm for over 1 month	Wet within 80 cm over 6 months, but not wet within 40 cm for over 11 month			Not wet within 80 cm for over 3 months, nor wet within 40 cm for over 1 month	Wet within 80 cm over 6 months, but not wet within 40 cm for over 11 month	Wet within 40 cm depth for over 11 month
Topsoil Properties
Gravel	4 %	10 %	9 %	4 %	16 %	6 %	10 %	4 %	1 %
Sand	37 %	42 %	42 %	39 %	37 %	49 %	42 %	45 %	20 %
Silt	44 %	38 %	36 %	40 %	44 %	31 %	38 %	36 %	40 %
Clay	19 %	20 %	22 %	21 %	19 %	20 %	20 %	19 %	40 %
USDA Texture	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Clay
Reference Bulk Density	1.41 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³	1.26 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.4 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.37 g/cm³	1.36 g/cm³	1.24 g/cm³	1.1 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	0.1 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	0.99 %	1.45 %	1 %	0.86 %	2.13 %	2.4 %	1.45 %	1 %	33.63 %
PH	5.8	5.1	6.6	7.2	7.5	5.1	5.1	6.4	4.3
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	48 cmol kg⁻¹	32 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	63 cmol kg⁻¹	80 cmol kg⁻¹	34 cmol kg⁻¹	32 cmol kg⁻¹	38 cmol kg⁻¹	45 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	12 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	27 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	9 cmol kg⁻¹	77 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	62 %	38 %	93 %	91 %	100 %	36 %	38 %	85 %	62 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	8.4 cmol kg⁻¹	4.3 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	16.9 cmol kg⁻¹	28.8 cmol kg⁻¹	4.7 cmol kg⁻¹	4.3 cmol kg⁻¹	8.2 cmol kg⁻¹	31.4 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	0 %	0 %	0 %	0.5 %	6 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	1 %	2 %	2 %	2 %	2 %	4 %	2 %	2 %	2 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1
Subsoil Properties
Gravel	4 %	19 %	12 %	7 %			19 %	18 %	2 %
Sand	31 %	45 %	41 %	41 %			45 %	39 %	47 %
Silt	38 %	35 %	34 %	38 %			35 %	34 %	26 %
Clay	31 %	20 %	25 %	21 %			20 %	27 %	27 %
USDA Texture	Clay loam	Loam	Loam	Loam			Loam	Clay loam	Sandy clay loam
Reference Bulk Density	1.33 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³			1.42 g/cm³	1.36 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.6 g/cm³	1.36 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³			1.36 g/cm³	1.6 g/cm³	0.1 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	0.29 %	0.5 %	0.37 %	0.38 %			0.5 %	0.47 %	32.89 %
PH	5.9	5.2	7	7.5			5.2	6.7	4.6
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	50 cmol kg⁻¹	35 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	61 cmol kg⁻¹			35 cmol kg⁻¹	37 cmol kg⁻¹	71 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	14 cmol kg⁻¹	9 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹			9 cmol kg⁻¹	11 cmol kg⁻¹	78 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	83 %	33 %	93 %	96 %			33 %	88 %	40 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	10.2 cmol kg⁻¹	2.6 cmol kg⁻¹	15.1 cmol kg⁻¹	15.2 cmol kg⁻¹			2.6 cmol kg⁻¹	11.3 cmol kg⁻¹	27.4 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	0 %	0 %	0.1 %	2.5 %			0 %	0.1 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %			0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	1 %	2 %	2 %	3 %			2 %	2 %	1 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1			0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1

Soil data provided by FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC, 2012. Harmonized World Soil Database (version 1.2). FAO, Rome, Italy and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.

Köppen climate classification provided by Kottek, M., J. Grieser, C. Beck, B. Rudolf, and F. Rubel, 2006: World Map of Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification updated. Meteorol. Z., 15, 259-263