Study site description: Rendina, Italy

Table of Contents

1. Responsible IP partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
   1. Physiographic setting of the plots
   2. Geological information
   3. Annual rainfall and seasonality
   4. Main land uses
   5. Crops and cropping
   6. Natural vegetation
   7. Grazing
4. Land use management and degradation processes
5. Socio-economic description
6. Institutional and political setting
7. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups (at all levels)
8. Past and on-going projects
9. References
10. Annex: Soil characteristics of the Rendina Basin

Annual rainfall and seasonality

Annual rainfall is 500 mm with two rainy seasons, from October to November and March to May. Evaporation is up to 1100 mm annually. BG aridity index is 65. The Rendina catchment is shifting from humid to subhumid prevailing conditions towards more subhumid / semiarid conditions. The surrounding area is (subhumid)-semiarid and is shifting towards semiarid-arid.