Altitude (m): 655 Topography: plain Orientation: SW Slope (%): 8.0 Hydrology: plain area in the river Mi Soil type: UMBRISOLS Soil sub-type: cambic Parent rock: acid to intermediate plutonic rocks PH: 4.6
Climate
Average temperature (°C): 11.8 Average precipitation (mm): 873 Number of frost days: 39 Reference period for climatic data: 2001-2012
History of the site
The oakwood area covers 65 ha, surrounded by pine reforestations. It is close to a recreational park area “Lagos de Teixeiro”. Traditionally, the area is structured as coppice woodland, mainly for fuel extraction purposes. It is also an area for game hunting, mainly roe deer and wild boar. DS14 is placed on a private land. The land is owned and managed by the Neighborhood Forest of San Pedro de Labio, typical of Galician culture. All the forest area belongs to a territorial demarcation, “parroquia”, which joins all the neighborhood members. Each citizen owns a percentage of the whole indivisible forest area and the management must be agreed with all the members of the community by a common consent. In Galicia, this way of forest property is called “Neighborhood Forest in Common Hand”. The stand shows an even-aged oak canopy covering an understory mainly with heaths and other shrubs as alder buckthorn and bilberries. Thinning treatments were applied in 1999. Initially, this even aged tree stand showed the following characteristics: Age (38 years), Mean DBH (15.8 cm), Mean Height (12.5 m), Density (1028 tree/ha).
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