Land Use Data for Latitude 32.75 Longitude 35.25

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

Locations

Jezre'el, Harod and Bet She'an valleys
Ramot Menashe
Zevulun valley

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid
Mediterranean drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Oil-bearing crops
Olives
Wheat
cereals and cereal products

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime)
Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10
20 to 30

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.