Hütelmoor catchment

Map of the catchment area

River bed swell at the outlet of the catchment

Dune breach 2011 close to the Heiligen See, Baltic Sea

View into the flooded catchment in Spring 2011

Meteorological station in the catchment

Chamber insitu measurment of CH₄

Location

In the Rostocker Heide, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany

Catchment size

10 km², 54°12′ N, 12°10′ E

Climate

Maritime, anual precipitation 610 mm, anual ETp 640 mm, mean yearly temperature 8.3°C

Geology

Glacifuvial, with intensive peat evolution

Topography

0-40 m above sea level

Vegetation/Land use

Forest 60 %, pasture 30%, peat 10%

Context of investigation

CH₄ emission, salinisation, hydrological processes

Measurements/Equipment

• Meteorological station
• Runoff
• Water level (diver) and runoff
• electrical conductivity (diver)
• soil moisture ( TDR, impedance FDR| Theta porobes , capacitance FDR| 5TE Decagon, TMS - sensor, profile probe )
• CH4 emission, chamber measurment
• Eddi covariance
• water level
• Water level + electric conductivity

Links to project webpages

• COMTESS
• the TERENO project

other Links

• Rostocker Heide at Wikipedia
• Chair for Hydrology and Chair for Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation University Rostock

References

• Bohne, K., Bohne, B., Prediction of salinization by flooding sandy soils with brackish water, in Fock, T., Hergarden, K., Repasi, D., Salt grasslands and coastal meadows in the Baltic Sea region, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST CONFERENCE, Neubrandenburg, Reihe A: Band 18, 2002.
• Bohne, B., Bohne, K., Monitoring zum Wasserhaushalt einer auf litoralem Versumpfungsmoor gewachsenen Regenmoorkalotte - Beispiel Naturschutzgebiet "Hütelmoor" bei Rostock. In: Stüdemann, O., Aspekte der Geoökologie Weißensee Verlag, Berlin, 2008.
• Koch, S., Jurasinski, G., Koebsch, F., Koch, M., Glatzel, S., Spatial Variability of Annual Estimates of Methane Emissions in a Phragmites Australis (Cav.) Trin ex Steud. Dominated Restored Coastal Brackish Fen, Wetlands, DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0528-z, 2014.
• Koebsch, F., Glatzel, S., Jurasinski, G., Vegetation controls methane emissions in a coastal brackish fen, WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 21(5), 323-337, DOI: 10.1007/s11273-013-9304-8, 2013.
• Koebsch, F., Glatzel, S., Hofmann, J., Forbrich, I., Jurasinski, G., CO2 exchange of a temperate fen during the conversion from moderately rewetting to flooding, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES 118(2), 940-950, DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20069, 2013.
• Kolp, O., Die nordöstliche Heide Mecklenburgs. Rostocker Heide, Gelbensander Forst, Forst Alte Heide, Ribnitzer Forst. Geographische Gesellschaft in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Abhandlungen Nr.1 . Berlin, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1957.
• Niedermeyer, R.- O., Lampe, R., Janke, W., Schwarzer, K., Duphorn, K., Kliewe, H., Werner, F., Die deutsche Ostseeküste, 2. Auflage, Gebr. Borntraeger (Stuttgart), Sammlung Geologischer Führer, Band 105, 2011.