Land Use Data for Latitude 38.25 Longitude -0.75

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Clot de Galvany
El Fondo d'Elx-Crevillent
El Hondo wetland
Llacunes de la Mata i Torrevieja.
Mata and Torrevieja lagoons
Riu Montnegre
Salinas de Santa Pola.
Santa Pola salt-pans
Serres del Sud d'Alacant

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Temperate drylands
Mediterranean humid
Mediterranean drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Fruit tree
Fruit tree (forestry plantations only)
Fruits
Grapes
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Oil-bearing crops
Olives
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Gypsisols (Soils with substantial accumulation of secondary calcium sulphate)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.