World Species : Protected Area : PERIOCHI METSOVOU (ANILIO

PERIOCHI METSOVOU (ANILIO - KATARA)

Location:	Greece
Area:	18,110 acres (7,329 hectares)
Species:	All Endangered Invasive
Climate:	View Climate Data
Land Use:	View Land Use Data
Köppen climate classification:	Csb (Climate: warm temperate; Precipitation: summer dry; Temperature: warm summer)
Natura 2000 Data Sheet:	View Data Sheet Explanatory notes

Ecoregions

Pindus Mountains mixed forests

Soils

— Protected Area Boundary

	A					B

Share	40 %	20 %	15 %	15 %	10 %	30 %	20 %	20 %	15 %	10 %	5 %
Soil Type	Vertic Cambisols	Eutric Regosols	Eutric Cambisols	Calcic Luvisols	Lithic Leptosols	Haplic Luvisols	Dystric Cambisols	Haplic Acrisols	Chromic Luvisols	Dystric Regosols	Lithic Leptosols
Topsoil Texture	Fine	Fine	Fine	Medium	Fine	Coarse	Medium	Coarse	Medium	Medium	Coarse
Reference Depth	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	10 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	10 cm
Drainage	Moderately well	Imperfectly	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Imperfectly	Moderately well
Available Water Capacity	75 m	15 m	50 m	100 m	15 mm	50 m	50 m	50 m	50 m	15 m	15 mm
Phase 1	Stony	Stony	Lithic	Stony		Gravelly	Gravelly	Gravelly	Gravelly	Stony
Phase 2		Lithic					Stony			Lithic
Root Obstacle	60 - 80 cm	40 - 60 cm	60 - 80 cm	60 - 80 cm		None to 80 cm	60 - 80 cm	None to 80 cm	None to 80 cm	60 - 80 cm
Impermeable Layer	None to 150 cm	None to 150 cm	None to 150 cm	None to 150 cm		None to 150 cm	None to 150 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	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	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	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	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
Misc. Property	Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)
Topsoil Properties
Gravel	2 %	48 %	10 %	5 %	17 %	4 %	10 %	4 %	12 %	19 %	21 %
Sand	20 %	26 %	23 %	53 %	28 %	82 %	42 %	81 %	48 %	42 %	73 %
Silt	29 %	30 %	29 %	24 %	25 %	8 %	38 %	9 %	28 %	37 %	18 %
Clay	51 %	44 %	48 %	23 %	47 %	10 %	20 %	10 %	24 %	21 %	9 %
USDA Texture	Clay	Clay	Clay	Sandy clay loam	Clay	Loamy sand	Loam	Sandy loam	Loam	Loam	Sandy loam
Reference Bulk Density	1.23 g/cm³	1.26 g/cm³	1.25 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.26 g/cm³	1.59 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.59 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.59 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.43 g/cm³	1.28 g/cm³	1.28 g/cm³	1.53 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.44 g/cm³	1.53 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.45 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	0.96 %	1.89 %	1.17 %	0.51 %	2.3 %	0.4 %	1.45 %	0.5 %	0.83 %	1.39 %	1.4 %
PH	7.3	6.1	6.7	7.7	7.5	6.5	5.1	5.5	6.3	5.1	7.5
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	54 cmol kg⁻¹	52 cmol kg⁻¹	50 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	33 cmol kg⁻¹	48 cmol kg⁻¹	32 cmol kg⁻¹	19 cmol kg⁻¹	39 cmol kg⁻¹	23 cmol kg⁻¹	85 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	36 cmol kg⁻¹	24 cmol kg⁻¹	27 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	35 cmol kg⁻¹	6 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	3 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	11 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	94 %	62 %	89 %	100 %	100 %	89 %	38 %	72 %	88 %	24 %	86 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	27.4 cmol kg⁻¹	12.9 cmol kg⁻¹	22.1 cmol kg⁻¹	17.1 cmol kg⁻¹	37.6 cmol kg⁻¹	5.9 cmol kg⁻¹	4.3 cmol kg⁻¹	3.6 cmol kg⁻¹	10 cmol kg⁻¹	3 cmol kg⁻¹	5.2 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	0.3 %	0 %	0.1 %	7.4 %	1.4 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	1 %	0 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	2 %	2 %	3 %	1 %	1 %	1 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.4 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 %	33 %	24 %	10 %		6 %	19 %	6 %	8 %	26 %
Sand	18 %	24 %	26 %	47 %		75 %	45 %	67 %	41 %	46 %
Silt	29 %	27 %	29 %	23 %		8 %	35 %	10 %	25 %	34 %
Clay	53 %	49 %	45 %	30 %		17 %	20 %	23 %	34 %	20 %
USDA Texture	Clay	Clay	Clay	Sandy clay loam		Sandy loam	Loam	Sandy clay loam	Clay loam	Loam
Reference Bulk Density	1.22 g/cm³	1.24 g/cm³	1.26 g/cm³	1.36 g/cm³		1.5 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³	1.44 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.46 g/cm³	1.35 g/cm³	1.35 g/cm³	1.67 g/cm³		1.57 g/cm³	1.36 g/cm³	1.5 g/cm³	1.51 g/cm³	1.48 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	0.43 %	0.61 %	0.58 %	0.3 %		0.24 %	0.5 %	0.3 %	0.4 %	0.6 %
PH	7.7	6.4	7	7.9		6.5	5.2	5.2	6.4	4.9
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	61 cmol kg⁻¹	40 cmol kg⁻¹	51 cmol kg⁻¹	50 cmol kg⁻¹		53 cmol kg⁻¹	35 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹	28 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	35 cmol kg⁻¹	23 cmol kg⁻¹	25 cmol kg⁻¹	17 cmol kg⁻¹		10 cmol kg⁻¹	9 cmol kg⁻¹	3 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	6 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	99 %	55 %	97 %	100 %		88 %	33 %	42 %	90 %	21 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	34.3 cmol kg⁻¹	11.6 cmol kg⁻¹	25.9 cmol kg⁻¹	23.1 cmol kg⁻¹		8.1 cmol kg⁻¹	2.6 cmol kg⁻¹	2.4 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	1.8 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	4 %	0 %	0.3 %	9.1 %		0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %		0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	2 %	0 %	1 %	2 %		1 %	2 %	3 %	1 %	1 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.2 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