Land Use History: For many decades traditionally extensive agricultural land use was characteristic, but in the last 1-2 decades most of the fields, orchards and farms were abandoned. The mainly small-size agricultural fields, and orchards belong to small farms. A lot of fields were forested by black locust and pine plantations in this century. Grasslands, arable fields, abandoned fields, orchards, farms, forest lots, temporary lakes and meadows compose a fine small sized mosaic pattern in the landscape. The grasslands of the site was extensively grazed by cattles and sheeps. Numerous shallow and temporary lakes were exist a few decades ago, but dried out since the seventies. The surrounding wet meadows are mowed and grazed with less intensity.

Earlier Investigations: Flora and fauna; soil and vegetation maps; vegetation composition; spatial pattern of the vegetation; phenology; plant biomass allocation and dynamics; plant ecophysiological characteristics; plant-herbivore interactions; secondary succession; long-term fluctuation of numerous insect taxa; large-scale distribution of insects; insect populations of agroecosystems; host-parasitoid interactions; food-web organisation of ant communities; habitat patchiness and path dynamics of communities under stress and disturbation were investigated.