University of Vienna

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University of Vienna IECB - Institute of Ecology
and Conservation Biology Dept.of Conservation
Biology,Vegetation Landscape Ecology Unit for
Landscape Ecology
Thomas WRBKA Andrea KISS and colleagues
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• Research Topics / Vegetation Ecology
• Plant Communities of Austria
• European Vegetation Survey
• Austrian Bog Mire Inventory
• Restoration of Bogs Mires
• Effects of Global Change on Arctic and High
  Mountain Vegetation
• Consequences of Land-use and Vegetation change
  for Hydrology of Carstic-Mountains
• GIS-based Optimization of Sampling Procedures in
  Vegetation Ecology

http//www.pph.univie.ac.at
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• Research Topics / Landscape Ecology
• Classification of Austrian Cultural Landscapes
• Historical Development of Cultural Landscapes
• Monitoring of Recent Landscape Changes
• Indicators for Sustainable Land-Use in
  Agricultural Landscapes
• Sustainability Map of Austria
• Farming Styles, Land-use intensity and
  Biodiversity in Austrian Agricultural Landscapes

http//www.pph.univie.ac.at
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Linking geographic scales
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Which data / products are available ?

• Land use, landscape structure, naturalness
• derived from field survey in 200 representative
  1x1km sample squares
• database with 100.000 polygons (l.elements)
  described by up to 20 attributes
• compatible with European projects (Countryside
  Survey - GB, Landscape and BD-monitoring in the
  Flemish community,..)
• dataset is maintained and managed by UNIVIE /
  IECB / CVL

Scale 1 10.000
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Which data / products are available ?

• Delineation of Cultural Landscapes
• derived from visual interpretation of satellite
  images
• about 16.000 individual polygons (landscapes)
• grouped into 47 predefined Cultural Landscape
  Types
• ecologically meaningful land-units with
  homogeneous pattern and processes (l.structure)
• to be used as reference units for green
  accounting etc.
• dataset is maintained and managed by UNIVIE /
  IECB / CVL

Scale 1 200.000
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Austrian Cultural Landscapes
Main Types
Result 12 Types and 47 Subtypes
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Assessment Naturalness
Knowledge base field data from 200 sample
landscapes Method decision tree
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Sustainability
Assessment Ecological Sustainability of
Agricultural Landscapes
Knowledge base field data from 200 sample
landscapes Method ordination / regression model
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We are looking forward to contribute to PAN !