General
National Id
Czech_03
Site name
Sumava National Park
Summary
The project coordinated by the Ministry of Environment involves a mire restoration program in the Sumava National Park, Czech Republic, The aim was the raise of the water table to a natural (per-drainage) level, decrease the fluctuations, and retain sufficient water in the mires especially during the driest periods. To make it possible, the activities carried out were restoration of natural (or near-natural) mire hydrology, enhancement of peat-forming vegetation and processes, conservation of natural mire biodiversity and involvement of the public into local mire conservation.
NUTS Code
Jihozápad
RBD code
CZ_5000
Transboundary
0
Data provider
REC
Source(s)
NWRM(s) implemented in the case study
Longitude
13.5186
Latitude
49.0183
Site information
Mean rainfall
1275
Mean rainfall unit
mm/year
Average temperature
3,20000004768372
Average runoff coefficient
0,100000001490116
Type
Case Study Info
Light or indepth?
Light
Average slope range
<2
Vegetation class
Bogs with dwarf shrub, lawn and hollow vegetation surrounded by Pinus xpseudopumilio krummholz, bog pine forests on valley bogs, transitional mires, spruce mires, waterlogged spruce forests.
Monitoring maintenance
Monitoring impacts effects
1
Monitoring parameters
main cations and anions (SO4, NO3, NH4, PO4, Ca, Mg, Al, Fe, pH, conductivity and dissolved organic carbon (DOC)
Performance
Performance impact estimation method
Catchment outlet
Performance impact estimation information
Water table measured manually in all boreholes at nearly fortnight intervals. Automatic gauging(at 1h intervals) by piezometers was used in a selected 49 boreholes. Water samples from boreholes, ditches, runoff profiles from drained sites and samples from streams were taken monthly for a detailed hydrochemical analysis, including content of main cations and anions, pH, conductivity and DOC. Runoff from drained sites as well as amount of precipitation were measuered continualy.
Design & implementations
Application scale
Field Scale
Installation date
2008
Area (ha)
500
Area subject to Land use change or Management/Practice change (ha)
500
Size
60
Size unit
km
Design capacity description
19 sites, nearly 60km of blocked ditches
Favourable preconditions
Former mire
Public consultation
1
Design contractual arrangement
| Arrangement type | Responsibility | Role | Comments | Name |
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Design consultation activity
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Environmental Education
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Design land use change
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Design authority
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Lessons, risks, implications...
Key lessons
The target water table concept seems to be a useful tool in mire restoration especially in the case of bogs and various sloping mires.
Long-term monitoring including a pre-restoration period of several years is necessary to evaluate restoration success both in mires and adjacent habitats, for understanding ecological processes and complete cosystem response.
When assessing hydrochemistry efects of restoration on the catchment level, the various conditions of restored minerotrophic mires and bogs should be taken into consideration.
Long-term monitoring including a pre-restoration period of several years is necessary to evaluate restoration success both in mires and adjacent habitats, for understanding ecological processes and complete cosystem response.
When assessing hydrochemistry efects of restoration on the catchment level, the various conditions of restored minerotrophic mires and bogs should be taken into consideration.
Success factor(s)
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Financing possibilities
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main factor
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Financing
| Financing type | Comments | |
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National funds
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Management programmes, Sumava NP and PLA Authority
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Driver
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Organisation committed to it
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main driver
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Authority of the Natural Park
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Availability of subsidies
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secondary driver
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Legal obligations
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secondary driver
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Strategy programes
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Financing share
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Policy, general governance and design targets
Policy description
Almost 70% mires have been modified by various human activities like forestry, agriculture and peat extraction in the past.
Part of wider plan
1
Policy target
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Increase Water Storage
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Improved Biodiversity
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Policy pressure
| Pressure directive | Relevant pressure |
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Policy area
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Policy impact
| Impact directive | Relevant impact |
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Policy wider plan
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Landscape management programmes
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Policy requirement directive
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Socio-economic
Costs total
510000
Information on Ecosystem improved biodiversity
N/A info
Information on Ecosystem provisioning services
N/A info
Ecosystem impact climate regulation
Not relevant for the specific application
Biophysical impacts
Information on increased water storage
The mean water table rose
Information on runoff reduction
The fluctuations in the water table were reduced, especially in the dwarf-shrub bog sites and wet forests. The water table beneath Trichophorum lawns remained at almost the same level, but also here fluctuations were reduced.
Water quality overall improvements
Positive impact-WQ improvement
Information on Water quality overall improvements
Increased concentrations of PO4, Al, Fe. Hydrochemical changes were found to be much more expressed in wet forest than peatbog. Long-term monitoring is necessary for understanding ecological processes and complete cosystem response.
Soil quality overall soil improvements
N/A info
Information on Soil quality overall soil improvements
N/A info
Similar †œMire Weeks† have also been organised in collaboration with NGOs for already 8 years. *ese †œMire Weeks† are attended mainly by young people and students. In this way several hundred people from the whole Czech Republic have taken part in mire restoration