AFSV2015 Annual Meeting in Romania Travel route, overnight stops A - D and Excursion sites 1 - 6

AFSV2015 Annual Meeting in Romania Travel route, overnight stops A - D and Excursion sites 1 - 6

lowland(Pan)

highland(Con)

mountains (Alp)

2a3

45a

5b 6

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Relationships between sea level and temperatures

and

sea level and precipitation for the 7 selected stations (AFSV2015 excursion sites 1 - 6).

AFSV2015 Annual Meeting in Romania

Climatic gradients

collineplanar submontane montane subalpinelower mid- upper

low-land h i g h l a n d m o u n t a i n s

12a 3 4 5a

5b

6

lower

Pannonic-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests (Quercetum frainetto-cerris)

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Impact factor biological invasions

Crown dieback trees

Acer tataricum

Fraxinus ornus

Quercus cerris

Quercus frainetto

lowland

150 m asl: 10.0°C; 565 mm jan. -1,7; july + 20°C EQ = 35 (outsite of xeric db-limit of beech)

3 Ancient cultural landscapewith long habitat continuity and heterogeneous disturbance

Great capricorn beetle (Cerambyx cerdo)

larval feeding tunnelsHorse-drawn excursions

highland

530 m asl: 8.0°C; 619 mm jan. -4,3; july +18,1°C EQ = 30 (xeric db-limit of beech)

Wilderness of the Eastern Carpathians4-6

Picea abies + Pinus cembra

Mountains old growth forests

t i m b e r l i n een il

800 m asl: 5.6°C; 750 mm jan. -5,8; july +16,0°C

1700 m asl: 1.2°C; 1100 mm jan. -7,1; July +9,1°C

1200 m asl: 3.5°C; 790 mm jan. -6,8; july +13,1°C

beech, firspruce

spruce

1200

800

1700

beechEQ = 20 (subm-mont)

EQ = 15 (mid-/upper mont)

EQ <10 (subalp. timberline)

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GAMS continentality index

Target date: second half of June 2015

Open jaw flight: arrival in Timisoara, departure from Sibiu

Duration: Saturday to Saturday (incl. arrival and departure)

Estimated costs per person: FlightBed and breakfast (7 times ) Proportional costs for bus journey in Romaniamiscellaneous (lunch, guidance, gifts etc.)

500 - 600 € per person should be sufficient

220 € 200 € 80 € 60 €--------560 €

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