The data from this webmap is represented by the Land Multi-degradation index (LMI) and the data used to obtain it, which througly described in these papers:

Prăvălie R., Necula N., Borrelli P., Panagos P., Lugato E., Ballabio C., Hassani A., Koppa A., Patriche C., Tișcovschi A., Bandoc G., Roșca B., 2025. A pan-European spatial inventory of agricultural land degradation. International Soil and Water Conservation Research 100613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswcr.2026.100613.

Prăvălie R., Borrelli P., Panagos P., Ballabio C., Lugato E., Chappell A., Miguez-Macho G., Maggi F., Peng J., Niculiță M., Roșca B., Patriche C., Dumitrașcu M., Bandoc G., Nita I.A., Birsan M.V., 2024. A unifying modelling of multiple land degradation pathways in Europe. Nature Communications 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48252-x.

By default the data loaded is represented by the NUTS0 to NUTS3 datasets of Europe styled after the percentage thresholds of NUTS agricultural areas (in relation to their total agricultural area) affected by significant multi-degradation, which in this case is characterized by at least three co-occurring processes.

By using the menu under the layer switcher you can choose the attribute to style the NUTS; the attributes are the percentages of the processes and of the LMI values and the color scale of the legend is universal across the NUTS.

By clicking on the NUTS area a pop-up will appear showing the name, agricultural area (kmp), area (kmp) and % of overy process (critical class) and of LMI classes (number of processes with critical values).

The layers switcher from right-up allows you to hide the NUTS polygons and see the Arable LMI from bellow; from here you can show/hide any other data regarding the proceeses and LMI for Arable and Agricultural areas in Europe.

The OSM base map can also be turn off.