World Species : Protected Area : El Kala National Park

El Kala National Park

Location:	Algeria
IUCN Category:	V
Area:	200,385 acres (81,093 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)

Ecoregions

Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
Mediterranean woodlands and forests

Soils

— Protected Area Boundary

	A		B				C							D		E			F

Share	70 %	30 %	50 %	20 %	20 %	10 %	40 %	20 %	20 %	5 %	5 %	5 %	5 %	70 %	30 %	50 %	30 %	20 %
Soil Type	Chromic Vertisols	Chromic Luvisols	Calcic Cambisols	Chromic Luvisols	Chromic Cambisols	Lithosols	Gleyic Luvisols	Calcaric Fluvisols	Lithosols	Orthic Solonchaks	Vertisols	Eutric Regosols	Albic Luvisols	Pellic Vertisols	Chromic Luvisols	Stagnic Luvisols	Haplic Alisols	Eutric Leptosols	Eutric Vertisols
Topsoil Texture	Fine	Medium	Medium	Medium	Fine	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Fine	Medium	Medium	Fine	Medium	Fine	Fine	Medium	Fine
Reference Depth	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	10 cm	100 cm	100 cm	10 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	30 cm	100 cm
Drainage	Poor	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Imperfectly	Poor	Poor	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Poor	Moderately well	Moderately well	Poor	Moderately well	Poor	Moderately well	Imperfectly	Poor
Available Water Capacity	125 m	150 m	150 m	150 m	150 m	15 mm	150 m	150 m	15 mm	150 m	125 m	150 m	150 m	125 m	150 m	150 m	150 m	50 mm	125 m
Misc. Property	Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)										Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)			Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)					Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)
Topsoil Properties
Gravel	4 %	9 %	10 %	9 %	3 %	26 %	5 %	10 %	26 %	6 %	3 %	27 %	10 %	2 %	9 %	5 %	4 %	19 %	3 %
Sand	16 %	47 %	38 %	47 %	20 %	43 %	42 %	35 %	43 %	36 %	18 %	47 %	37 %	20 %	47 %	13 %	17 %	52 %	25 %
Silt	29 %	29 %	41 %	29 %	30 %	34 %	36 %	47 %	34 %	43 %	26 %	34 %	44 %	24 %	29 %	24 %	47 %	28 %	23 %
Clay	55 %	24 %	21 %	24 %	50 %	23 %	22 %	18 %	23 %	21 %	56 %	19 %	19 %	56 %	24 %	63 %	36 %	20 %	52 %
USDA Texture	Clay	Loam	Loam	Loam	Clay	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Loam	Clay	Loam	Loam	Clay	Loam	Clay (heavy)	Silty clay loam	Loam	Clay
Reference Bulk Density	1.21 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.23 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.21 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.22 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.19 g/cm³	1.28 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.24 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.65 g/cm³	1.54 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³	1.54 g/cm³	1.23 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³	1.21 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³	1.31 g/cm³	1.54 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.2 g/cm³	1.3 g/cm³	1.49 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	0.75 %	0.86 %	0.63 %	0.86 %	1.43 %	1.4 %	0.94 %	0.6 %	1.4 %	0.53 %	0.95 %	0.97 %	0.82 %	1.2 %	0.86 %	1.32 %	1.33 %	0.22 %	0.46 %
PH	7.9	6.4	8	6.4	6.8	7.6	6.1	8	7.6	8.2	7.3	6.4	6	6.8	6.4	5.3	5.1	7.2	5.3
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	75 cmol kg⁻¹	38 cmol kg⁻¹	56 cmol kg⁻¹	38 cmol kg⁻¹	35 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	46 cmol kg⁻¹	65 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	46 cmol kg⁻¹	70 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹	53 cmol kg⁻¹	68 cmol kg⁻¹	38 cmol kg⁻¹	44 cmol kg⁻¹	45 cmol kg⁻¹	62 cmol kg⁻¹	43 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	44 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	16 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	21 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	43 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	32 cmol kg⁻¹	21 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	24 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	100 %	89 %	100 %	89 %	91 %	100 %	89 %	100 %	100 %	100 %	100 %	79 %	83 %	100 %	89 %	100 %	33 %	89 %	83 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	45.2 cmol kg⁻¹	10 cmol kg⁻¹	27.1 cmol kg⁻¹	10 cmol kg⁻¹	20.8 cmol kg⁻¹	15.6 cmol kg⁻¹	9.8 cmol kg⁻¹	19.8 cmol kg⁻¹	15.6 cmol kg⁻¹	22.1 cmol kg⁻¹	41.6 cmol kg⁻¹	15.1 cmol kg⁻¹	16.3 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹	10 cmol kg⁻¹	32.3 cmol kg⁻¹	6.9 cmol kg⁻¹	11.6 cmol kg⁻¹	20.1 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	2.5 %	0 %	7 %	0 %	0.1 %	3.9 %	0 %	11.7 %	3.9 %	9 %	0.8 %	0 %	0 %	0.2 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	5 %	0 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0.1 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0.2 %	0 %	1.8 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0.1 %	0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	1 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	4 %	1 %	2 %	4 %	30 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	2 %	1 %	1 %	2 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.2 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.3 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.7 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	22.3 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 dS m-1	0 dS m-1	1 dS m-1	0 dS m-1
Subsoil Properties
Gravel	5 %	8 %	10 %	8 %	4 %		6 %	11 %		7 %	4 %	28 %	19 %	4 %	8 %	5 %	7 %		4 %
Sand	15 %	39 %	36 %	39 %	20 %		35 %	37 %		40 %	18 %	50 %	33 %	20 %	39 %	13 %	22 %		31 %
Silt	28 %	27 %	41 %	27 %	29 %		32 %	45 %		39 %	24 %	32 %	35 %	22 %	27 %	21 %	38 %		23 %
Clay	57 %	34 %	23 %	34 %	51 %		33 %	18 %		21 %	58 %	18 %	32 %	58 %	34 %	66 %	40 %		46 %
USDA Texture	Clay	Clay loam	Loam	Clay loam	Clay		Clay loam	Loam		Loam	Clay	Loam	Clay loam	Clay	Clay loam	Clay (heavy)	Clay loam		Clay
Reference Bulk Density	1.21 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.23 g/cm³		1.32 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³		1.4 g/cm³	1.21 g/cm³	1.44 g/cm³	1.32 g/cm³	1.21 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.18 g/cm³	1.27 g/cm³		1.27 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.76 g/cm³	1.52 g/cm³	1.46 g/cm³	1.52 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³		1.59 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³		1.32 g/cm³	1.53 g/cm³	1.46 g/cm³	1.58 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.52 g/cm³	1.48 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³		1.57 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	0.45 %	0.38 %	0.43 %	0.38 %	0.6 %		0.28 %	0.4 %		0.27 %	0.55 %	0.4 %	0.39 %	0.63 %	0.38 %	1.2 %	0.71 %		0.19 %
PH	8.1	6.3	8.2	6.3	7.2		6.5	8.1		8.2	7.8	6.9	6.3	7.4	6.3	5	5.1		5.1
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	73 cmol kg⁻¹	40 cmol kg⁻¹	57 cmol kg⁻¹	40 cmol kg⁻¹	33 cmol kg⁻¹		45 cmol kg⁻¹	84 cmol kg⁻¹		59 cmol kg⁻¹	72 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹	56 cmol kg⁻¹	71 cmol kg⁻¹	40 cmol kg⁻¹	46 cmol kg⁻¹	38 cmol kg⁻¹		42 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	43 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	17 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	23 cmol kg⁻¹		15 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹		15 cmol kg⁻¹	43 cmol kg⁻¹	11 cmol kg⁻¹	21 cmol kg⁻¹	43 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	34 cmol kg⁻¹	17 cmol kg⁻¹		20 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	100 %	93 %	100 %	93 %	97 %		96 %	100 %		100 %	100 %	85 %	89 %	100 %	93 %	100 %	24 %		79 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	47.5 cmol kg⁻¹	12.3 cmol kg⁻¹	30.7 cmol kg⁻¹	12.3 cmol kg⁻¹	19.5 cmol kg⁻¹		14.3 cmol kg⁻¹	20.7 cmol kg⁻¹		20.4 cmol kg⁻¹	45.1 cmol kg⁻¹	10.3 cmol kg⁻¹	18.1 cmol kg⁻¹	44.5 cmol kg⁻¹	12.3 cmol kg⁻¹	34.3 cmol kg⁻¹	4.2 cmol kg⁻¹		15.7 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	3.9 %	0 %	10 %	0 %	0.5 %		0 %	12.2 %		10 %	3.7 %	0.1 %	0 %	3.4 %	0 %	0 %	0 %		0 %
Calcium Sulphate	0 %	0 %	0.2 %	0 %	0 %		0 %	0.3 %		1 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %		0 %
Exchangeable Sodium	3 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	1 %		1 %	3 %		20 %	2 %	2 %	1 %	2 %	1 %	2 %	1 %		2 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.3 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.3 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1		0.1 dS m-1	0.5 dS m-1		14 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 dS m-1	0 dS m-1		0 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