Site Implementation Plan: Macao and Gois, Portugal

Table of Contents

1. Site Information
2. Summary
3. Site 1 (Caratão catchment)
   1. Situation
   2. Physiographic setting of the plots
   3. Annual rainfall and seasonality information
4. Site 2 (Vale Torto catchment)
5. Site 3 (Camelo catchment)
6. Site 4 (Moinhos catchment)
7. Stakeholder information
8. Land use
9. Conservation measures and experimental setup
10. Monitoring activities

Situation

Site 1 is the Caratão catchment. The catchment is located in the Mação Municipality, in the lower Tejo river basin, in Central Portugal. The catchment was burned a first time in 1998 and then in the catastrophic 2003 fires. Mação lies in a transition zone between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean climate types.

Figure 1. Location of the study site.