World Species : Protected Area : SYROS: OROS SYRINGAS EOS PARALIA

SYROS: OROS SYRINGAS EOS PARALIA

Location:	Greece
Area:	1,936 acres (784 hectares)
Species:	All Endangered Invasive
Climate:	View Climate Data
Land Use:	View Land Use Data
Köppen climate classification:	Csa (Climate: warm temperate; Precipitation: summer dry; Temperature: hot summer)
Natura 2000 Data Sheet:	View Data Sheet Explanatory notes

Ecoregions

Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests

Soils

— Protected Area Boundary

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Share	40 %	30 %	15 %	5 %	3 %	3 %	3 %	1 %
Soil Type	Lithic Leptosols	Eutric Regosols	Eutric Cambisols	Chromic Luvisols	Haplic Acrisols	Chromic Cambisols	Haplic Luvisols	Chromic Luvisols
Topsoil Texture	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Reference Depth	10 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm
Drainage	Imperfectly	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well
Available Water Capacity	0 mm	15 m	50 m	100 m	75 m	50 m	100 m	100 m
Phase 1	Stony	Stony	Gravelly	Stony	Stony	Gravelly	Stony	Stony
Phase 2	Gravelly	Lithic	Stony			Stony
Root Obstacle		40 - 60 cm	40 - 60 cm	60 - 80 cm	60 - 80 cm	40 - 60 cm	60 - 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
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
Topsoil Properties
Gravel	21 %	25 %	9 %	12 %	10 %	10 %	4 %	12 %
Sand	42 %	47 %	42 %	48 %	52 %	49 %	41 %	48 %
Silt	34 %	34 %	36 %	28 %	24 %	28 %	37 %	28 %
Clay	24 %	19 %	22 %	24 %	24 %	23 %	22 %	24 %
USDA Texture	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Sandy clay loam	Loam	Loam	Loam
Reference Bulk Density	1.38 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.3 g/cm³	1.21 g/cm³	1.37 g/cm³	1.53 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.31 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.53 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	1.61 %	0.98 %	1 %	0.83 %	1 %	0.98 %	0.74 %	0.83 %
PH	7.5	6.4	6.6	6.3	4.9	6.6	6.5	6.3
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	42 cmol kg⁻¹	40 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	39 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	47 cmol kg⁻¹	39 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	16 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	6 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	100 %	78 %	93 %	88 %	47 %	83 %	91 %	88 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	15.5 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	10 cmol kg⁻¹	3.2 cmol kg⁻¹	11.6 cmol kg⁻¹	11 cmol kg⁻¹	10 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	3.9 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0.1 %	0 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	3 %	1 %	2 %	1 %	2 %	2 %	1 %	1 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1
Subsoil Properties
Gravel		28 %	12 %	8 %	10 %	9 %	3 %	8 %
Sand		51 %	41 %	41 %	43 %	47 %	37 %	41 %
Silt		31 %	34 %	25 %	21 %	26 %	34 %	25 %
Clay		18 %	25 %	34 %	36 %	27 %	29 %	34 %
USDA Texture		Loam	Loam	Clay loam	Clay loam	Sandy clay loam	Clay loam	Clay loam
Reference Bulk Density		1.44 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.32 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.35 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³
Bulk Density		1.45 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.51 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.44 g/cm³	1.51 g/cm³	1.51 g/cm³
Organic Carbon		0.4 %	0.37 %	0.4 %	0.43 %	0.47 %	0.36 %	0.4 %
PH		6.9	7	6.4	4.9	6.7	6.7	6.4
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity		56 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	44 cmol kg⁻¹	50 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity		11 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	6 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation		89 %	93 %	90 %	32 %	92 %	93 %	90 %
Total Exchangeable Bases		10.3 cmol kg⁻¹	15.1 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	2.2 cmol kg⁻¹	11.9 cmol kg⁻¹	13.1 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate		0 %	0.1 %	0 %	0 %	0.1 %	0 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate		0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium		2 %	2 %	1 %	2 %	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	0.1 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