Type of grassland mean median min. max. n

moor land 27 27 4 48 6

fallow grassland 27 27 7 60 27

four cut meadow 29 28 7 52 28

ley farming areas 32 33 23 48 15

three cut meadow 33 32 13 58 328

mowing pasture 38 38 18 64 105

alpine pasture 39 33 21 115 39

two cut meadow 39 38 14 88 693

litter meadow 41 43 9 62 50

alpine meadow 43 42 34 56 4

cultivated pasture 46 44 24 86 73

one cut meadow 49 46 8 91 235

mountainous meadow 53 49 37 75 5

extensive pasture 54 55 6 111 120

Number of plant species

on different grassland types in Austria

Poetsch, E.M. & A. Blaschka, 2003.

Abschlussbericht über die Auswertung von MAB-Daten zur Evaluierung des ÖPUL

hinsichtlich Kapitel VI.2.A „Artenvielfalt“, BMLFUW

found in: Österreichischer Beitrag zum 3. Report „Grassland Resowing“

edited by J.G. Conijn and F. Taube, Wageningenhttp://www.raumberg-gumpenstein.at/cm4/de/component/jdownloads/finish/860-umweltressourcen-im-gruenland/

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