Deposit Areas for Native Woods in Lower Austria

Paragraph 17(5) of the NÖ Nature Conservation Act 2000 prohibits spreading alien plant species in the wild from January 2022. A guide for practical application defines four natural sites in Lower Austria for local trees. The dataset is provided by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Enforce nature conservation laws based on the defined native species sites.
• Plan reforestation projects based on the natural demarcation of four sites.
• Study genetic differentiation of plant populations based on the described territorial definition.

Strengths

• Based on a specific legal provision (Paragraph 17(5) of the NÖ Nature Conservation Act 2000).
• Provides a natural demarcation of four distinct sites in Lower Austria.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including KML, JSON, and ESRI SHAPE.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Geography

Lower Austria