World Species : Protected Area : Hoher Ifen und Piesenkopf

Hoher Ifen und Piesenkopf

Location:	Germany
Area:	11,201 acres (4,533 hectares)
Species:	All Endangered Invasive
Climate:	View Climate Data
Land Use:	View Land Use Data
Köppen climate classification:	Dfc (Climate: snow; Precipitation: fully humid; Temperature: cool summer)
Natura 2000 Data Sheet:	View Data Sheet Explanatory notes

Ecoregions

Alps conifer and mixed forests

Soils

— Protected Area Boundary

	A						B		C

Share	35 %	15 %	15 %	15 %	10 %	10 %	50 %	10 %	50 %	20 %	10 %	10 %	10 %
Soil Type	Rendzic Leptosols	Rendzic Leptosols	Lithic Leptosols	Eutric Cambisols	Stagnic Luvisols	Eutric Gleysols	Lithic Leptosols	Rendzic Leptosols	Eutric Cambisols	Vertic Cambisols	Gleyic Luvisols	Eutric Gleysols	Rendzic Leptosols
Topsoil Texture	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Fine	Medium	Medium	Medium
Reference Depth	30 cm	30 cm	10 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	10 cm	30 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	30 cm
Drainage	Imperfectly	Imperfectly	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Poor	Poor	Imperfectly	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Moderately well	Poor	Poor	Imperfectly
Available Water Capacity	15 mm	15 mm	15 mm	100 m	100 m	125 m	15 mm	50 mm	50 m	75 m	15 m	125 m	15 mm
Phase 1	Stony	Stony	Stony	Stony	Stony	Stony	Glaciers	Glaciers	Stony	Stony	Lithic	Stony	Stony
Phase 2											Stony
Root Obstacle				None to 80 cm	None to 80 cm	None to 80 cm			None to 80 cm	None to 80 cm	40 - 60 cm	None to 80 cm
Impermeable Layer				None to 150 cm	80 - 150 cm	80 - 150 cm			40 - 80 cm	None to 150 cm	None to 150 cm	None to 150 cm
Soil Water Regime				Not wet within 80 cm for over 3 months, nor 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	Not wet within 80 cm for over 3 months, nor 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
Misc. Property										Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)
Topsoil Properties
Gravel	16 %	16 %	21 %	9 %	4 %	4 %	21 %	16 %	9 %	2 %	5 %	4 %	16 %
Sand	37 %	37 %	42 %	42 %	37 %	37 %	42 %	37 %	42 %	20 %	47 %	37 %	37 %
Silt	44 %	44 %	34 %	36 %	44 %	40 %	34 %	44 %	36 %	29 %	29 %	40 %	44 %
Clay	19 %	19 %	24 %	22 %	19 %	23 %	24 %	19 %	22 %	51 %	24 %	23 %	19 %
USDA Texture	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Clay	Loam	Loam	Loam
Reference Bulk Density	1.41 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.23 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.24 g/cm³	1.24 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.37 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.35 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.24 g/cm³	1.37 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.54 g/cm³	1.35 g/cm³	1.24 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	2.13 %	2.13 %	1.61 %	1 %	0.99 %	1.07 %	1.61 %	2.13 %	1 %	0.96 %	0.83 %	1.07 %	2.13 %
PH	7.5	7.5	7.5	6.6	5.8	6.2	7.5	7.5	6.6	7.3	6.3	6.2	7.5
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	80 cmol kg⁻¹	80 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	48 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	80 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	54 cmol kg⁻¹	46 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹	80 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	27 cmol kg⁻¹	27 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	27 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	36 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	27 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	100 %	100 %	100 %	93 %	62 %	88 %	100 %	100 %	93 %	94 %	93 %	88 %	100 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	28.8 cmol kg⁻¹	28.8 cmol kg⁻¹	15.5 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	8.4 cmol kg⁻¹	10.2 cmol kg⁻¹	15.5 cmol kg⁻¹	28.8 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	27.4 cmol kg⁻¹	14.9 cmol kg⁻¹	10.2 cmol kg⁻¹	28.8 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	6 %	6 %	3.9 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	3.9 %	6 %	0 %	0.3 %	0 %	0 %	6 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	2 %	2 %	3 %	2 %	1 %	2 %	3 %	2 %	2 %	1 %	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	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1
Subsoil Properties
Gravel				12 %	4 %	5 %			12 %	4 %	6 %	5 %
Sand				41 %	31 %	36 %			41 %	18 %	39 %	36 %
Silt				34 %	38 %	36 %			34 %	29 %	27 %	36 %
Clay				25 %	31 %	28 %			25 %	53 %	34 %	28 %
USDA Texture				Loam	Clay loam	Clay loam			Loam	Clay	Clay loam	Clay loam
Reference Bulk Density				1.38 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.35 g/cm³			1.38 g/cm³	1.22 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.35 g/cm³
Bulk Density				1.39 g/cm³	1.6 g/cm³	1.5 g/cm³			1.39 g/cm³	1.46 g/cm³	1.65 g/cm³	1.5 g/cm³
Organic Carbon				0.37 %	0.29 %	0.37 %			0.37 %	0.43 %	0.28 %	0.37 %
PH				7	5.9	6.6			7	7.7	7	6.6
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity				55 cmol kg⁻¹	50 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹			55 cmol kg⁻¹	61 cmol kg⁻¹	44 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity				15 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹			15 cmol kg⁻¹	35 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation				93 %	83 %	90 %			93 %	99 %	99 %	90 %
Total Exchangeable Bases				15.1 cmol kg⁻¹	10.2 cmol kg⁻¹	11.9 cmol kg⁻¹			15.1 cmol kg⁻¹	34.3 cmol kg⁻¹	15.9 cmol kg⁻¹	11.9 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate				0.1 %	0 %	0 %			0.1 %	4 %	0.4 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate				0 %	0 %	0 %			0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium				2 %	1 %	2 %			2 %	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

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