Land Use Data for Latitude 42.75 Longitude 10.75

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

Locations

Diaccia Botrona
Formiche di Grosseto
Padule di Diaccia Botrona
Padule Orti - Bottagone
Poggio Tre Cancelli
Tombolo da Castiglion della Pescaia a Marina di Grosseto
Uccellina mountains, Trappola marshes and Ombrone mouth

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
270 to 299

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Scarlino Mill/Acid Plant Complex (Processing Plant)Iron, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid
Scarlino Plant Ti (Processing Plant)Titanium, Pigment

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.