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Table 4 Proportion and kind of land use within the study area

From: Accounting for canopy drip effects of spatiotemporal trends of the concentrations of N in mosses, atmospheric N depositions and critical load exceedances: a case study from North-Western Germany

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Total area (ha)

Proportion (%)

Artificial surfaces

Urban fabrics

Discontinuous urban fabric

63,501

1.30

Agricultural areas

Arable land

Non-irrigated arable land

4,002,828

82.02

Pastures

Pastures

554,884

11.37

Heterogeneous agricultural areas

Complex cultivation

76,928

1.58

Forests and semi-natural areas

Forests

Coniferous forest

66,033

1.35

  1. Values below 1% are not presented.