Location and area
20 km SE of city Kecskemét, Hungary
46°48' N, 19°28' E, 120 m above sea level, 3700 ha

Access to the site
by car from Kecskemét (20km), or Budapest (100 km), or Szeged (100 km)

Land-use and vegetation types

• forest steppe composed of juniper-poplar woodland, open sand steppe
• pastures, wet meadows, reedbeds
• pine plantations, poplar plantations
• farmhouses, arable lands, old-fields, orchards, wineyards
  

Satellite sites

Beyond the core site, the KISKUN LTER activity covers the whole Kiskunság, including regional mapping of land-use, habitat types and actual vegetation. The main satellite sites are as follows:

• Fülöpháza sand dune area
• Fülöpháza old-fields
• Bugac juniper-poplar forest
• Bugac pastures
• Csévharaszt forest-grassland area

The LTER site infrastructure is under development. The field station is in the vicinity of Fülöpháza, 10 km from the Orgovány site. It provides housing for up to 14 people, and place for meeting and office work.

There are other housing and meeting facilities in Fülöpháza, in the Kiskunság National Park headquater in Kecskemét (20 km from Orgovány), and in the Bugac Juniper field station (30 km)

Indoor research facilities (library, computers, maps, cars, biological reference collections databases), are available at Kiskunság National Park Center Kecskemét, Institute of Ecology and Botany of HAS Vácrátót, ELTE University Budapest, JATE University Szeged.