The dataset contains information about the potential groundwater recharged, agricultural production and socio-cultural assessment of ecosystem services in Mediterranean arid landscapes of southeastern Spain.

The dataset provides information about landscape dynamics in a diverse cultivated region which are displayed through shapefiles. The aim of the study was to calculate and visualize changing patterns in land-use, habitat diversity, urban sprawl and the structuring degree of open areas using a GIS. The study was conducted at the Stubai Valley (municipalities Fulpmes, Mieders, Telfes, Schönberg and Neustift)for the years 1860-2006.

Agricultural land use of the Gesäuse-Johnsbachtal site

The dataset contains of a regional bird species list and abundance values for their regional occurrence. The data was obtained by a survey, that was covering an area of about 200km². Five line transects each of 25 km length were investigated 5times a year for the years 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. The survey was repeated from 2013 till 2015 in the equal manner, the same methodology and personal. The method for the survey ist the point-stopp-counting. Together with the bird data excessive data on biotope structure on the single observation points and detailed land use data is available upon request.

Farmland birds are used as indicator for the overall biodiversity on agricultural lands summarizing the effects over the whole food pyramide. The composition, frequency and diversity of the bird communities at 117 sample points, representative for a whole landscape have been monitored over a periode of 3 years in 2013-2015. The survey is a repication of the same survey proceed in 1999-2002. The monitoring was carried out over 5 month per year according to the stop-count-method, differntiated between two distances from the counting point.