Danube-Auen National Park Danube-Auen National Park Donau-Auen National Park () covers 93 square kilometres in Vienna and Lower Austria and is one of the largest remaining floodplains of the Danube in Middle Europe. The German word Aue (variant Au) means "river island, wetland, floodplain, riparian woodland", i.e. a cultivated landscape in a riparian zone. The words Aue and Au occur in a large number of German place names—including Donau, the German word for the Danube River—and refer to forests, meadows, and wetlands in river and stream lowlands and floodplains. The Danube-Auen National Park protects a large area of lowland forests, meadows, wetlands, and
International Association for Danube Research conference of the 50 Anniversary in Vienna-Klosterneuburg 2006 and the 38 IAD conference in Dresden 2010 were published in the international journal "River Systems". The Conference Proceedings and IAD books are hosted by, and can be gathered at the Academic Library of Biology at the University Vienna (Fachbereichsbibliothek Biologie an der Universität Wien). International Association for Danube Research The International Association for Danube Research, or IAD, is the oldest NGO of an active network of scientists in the Danube River Basin of Europe. The board of the IAD is composed of the president, vice-president and general secretary, forming the presidium,