In 1985 the Corine programme was initiated in the European Union. Corine means 'coordination of information on the environment' and it was a prototype project working on many different environmental issues. The Corine databases and several of its programmes have been taken over by the EEA. One of these is an inventory of land cover in 44 classes, and presented as a cartographic product, at a scale of 1:100 000. This database is operationally available for most areas of Europe (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover).

In 1985 the Corine programme was initiated in the European Union. Corine means 'coordination of information on the environment' and it was a prototype project working on many different environmental issues. The Corine databases and several of its programmes have been taken over by the EEA. One of these is an inventory of land cover in 44 classes, and presented as a cartographic product, at a scale of 1:100 000. This database is operationally available for most areas of Europe (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover).

In 1985 the Corine programme was initiated in the European Union. Corine means 'coordination of information on the environment' and it was a prototype project working on many different environmental issues. The Corine databases and several of its programmes have been taken over by the EEA. One of these is an inventory of land cover in 44 classes, and presented as a cartographic product, at a scale of 1:100 000. This database is operationally available for most areas of Europe (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover).

Layers of different land use land cover types (natural and anthropogenic)

Agricultural land use of the Gesäuse-Johnsbachtal site

Vegetation and environmental data of the study site Putzach, a region in Obergurgl, are presented Vegetation data as well as pH-values were collected in 2010 as a part of the ALPO-Project (Alpine Land Use around Obergurgl). ALPO - Alpine Land Use around Obergurgl (Tyrol, Austria) (2010-2011): In the Inner Ötztal Valley, humans are supposed to have been present since at least 9600 years (archaeological data). Grazing indicator species were recorded at the treeline ecotone by palynological means for the last 6300 years. Thus, the extant landscape in this area is an expression of (pre-)historical and actual land use, driven by ecological and socio-economical constraints. The interdisciplinary project ALPO contributes therefore to the understanding of recent and (pre-)historical land use by means of toponomastic and historical knowledge, by investigating archaeological structures, and by studying present and past vegetation. The locality of Putzach (Obergurgl, Ötztal, Tyrol, Austria; 2300 m a.s.l.) was selected as key research area (i) to clarify the role of past climate and human activities, (ii) to evaluate the diversity changes due to land use changes, and (iii) to correlate microtoponomastic characteristics to archaeological findings and actual vegetation, and to palynological/ archaeobotanical data.

A detailed vegetation analysis of managed and abandoned mountain meadows and pastures has been conducted in the area of Obergurgl, on the left side of the Gurgler Valley at altitudes between 1840 m and 2400 m a.s.l. The objective of the study was to record and describe both the areas still managedn in varous ways and the abandoned areas under the aspect of plant sociology, and to emphasise the connection between land use and vegetation. Therefore 110 vegetation records were made from 26.06.2007 to 18.08.2007.

The dataset contains number of plant species, diversity (within habitat), number (and type) of layers, presence/absence (and type) of management, presence/absence (and type) of natural disturbances, aboveground biomass by indirect methods, presence/absence of groundwater table and presence/absence of susceptibility of the site to drought. Sampling plots are the same used for biomass and LAI measurements in the Orgovány LTER (KISKUN LTER) grassland. The aim of the yearly biomass and LAI measurements in the grasslands is to study the effect of weather to the plant production along a productivity gradient. Aboveground living plant biomass and LAI data from 24-30 grassland patches in Orgovány region of Kiskunság (Kiskunság National Park) along a productivity gradient from open sand grassland to reedbed, yearly from 2003 to 2012, were sampled approx. at the time of maximum aboveground biomass. The size of the patches are 20 to 50 sq-m, and each year one 0.5 by 0.5 m sampling unit is selected within each patch. The patches are permanent ones; some of them were omitted and replaced because of disturbance in several years. The aboveground living plant biomass data of separate species are submitted in HU_SI001199_species_biomass_20130508 dataset, and the EUNIS habitat types of the sampled patches are submitted in HU_SI001199_eunis_habitat_type_20130508 dataset.

Since the mid-1990s a series of subalpine grassland sites have been established at the Kaserstattalm, Stubai Valley. They include hay meadows, pastures and abandoned grassland which have partley been reforested. The overarching aim of all studies is to assess effects of global changes on ecological processes and related functional relationships in mountain grasslands. Therefor basic shapefiles and maps were created. This dataset includes only shapefiles representing: historical land use map,soil maps (soil type, soil depth, and organic soil layer ) and vegetation cover.

The European nature information system, EUNIS, brings together European data from several databases and organisations into three interlinked modules on sites, species and habitat types. The EUNIS information system is part of the European Biodiversity data centre (BDC) and it is a contribution to the knowledge base for implementing the EU and global biodiversity strategies and the 7th Environmental Action Programme. The EUNIS information system provides access to the publicly available data in the EUNIS database. The information includes: (Data on species, habitat types and designated sites compiled in the framework of Natura 2000 (EU Habitats and Birds Directives); the EUNIS habitat classification; data from material compiled by the European Topic Centre of Biological Diversity; Information on species, habitat types and designated sites mentioned in relevant international conventions and in the IUCN Red Lists; Specific data collected in the framework of the EEA's reporting activities, which also constitute a core set of data to be updated periodically, e.g. Eionet priority dataflow Nationally designated areas (CDDA)).