Land Use Data for Latitude 44.25 Longitude 12.25

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

Locations

Bacini di Russi e Fiume Lamone
Bacini ex - zuccherificio di Mezzano
Cervia saltpans
Ortazzo and Ortazzino
Ortazzo, Ortazzino, Foce del Torrente Bevano
Pialassa dei Piomboni, Pineta di Punta Marina
Pineta di Classe
Punte Alberete and Valle della Canna, Pineta San Vitale and Pialassa della Baiona
Salina di Cervia

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Grapes
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
10 to 50
50 to 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.