The site Murau is part of the European Level II Forest Monitoring System in the frame of the International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests). This site is one out of 16 Austrian Level II sites; it was established in 1995 and is, since 2006, part of the LTER Austria network. The site is situated in the north-west of the federal country Styria in the Austrian Central Alps about 100 km west of the city of Graz at 1550 m a.s.l., in a 130 year old managed spruce-larch forest.