The Project
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Research Area
 
  The area under investigation is located in SE-Turkey, Villayet Hatay (along the Gulf of Iskenderun), at the Western Slopes of the Amanos Mtn. (Nur Daǵları) between 36° 15´ 00´´ and 36° 22´ 30´´ of eastern longitude and 36° 48´ and 36° 52´ northern latitude. Above the town of Dörtyol the research area extends from the middle colline belt (250m a.s.l.) to the sub-alpine peaks of the 'Daz Daǵları' ( Harmankaya Tepe 2.208m a.s.l.). Background information regarding Nature-Protection and Landscape-Development-Programs in Turkey, cf. World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Overviews of the research area are offered as Satellite-images:

1) The Amanos Mtn. with the Gulf of Iskenderun (PDF-File: 433K)
 2) The research area between Dörtyol and the Daz Daǵları peaks. (PDF-File: 238K)
  [info-point]Several documents are available in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF)  Get Acrobat Reader

For correct interpretation of diacritic characters used in PDF-Files and the Web Sites
(e.g. names of turkish villages, mountains) 'Turkish Fonts for Windows' are necessary.
 
Disciplines involved in the investigations      (cf. also Cooperations!)
 
  • Ecosystem Research & Vegetation Science
  • Soil Science
  • Bioclimatology
  • Erosion Research
  • Remote Sensing
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Financing
  The Research Project was supported by the following Institutions:
 
Project Development, Implementation & Management
  The Research Project was initiated, developed and performed at Berlin Technical University, Dept. for Environmental & Sociological Science, Inst. of Ecology & Biology by:
 
Publication of Results
  The Results have been published as a
  • BOOK (2 Vol. with 657 pp, 106 Figs., 75 Tables, 39 Photos, incl. 6 comprehensive tables with Vegetation Units as a result of the synoptical classification and a set of 8 Thematical Ecological Maps) and alternatively on
  • CD-ROM - -Files, cf. Publications
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