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

Main land uses

The main land uses are:

• arable lands,(60%)
• herbaceus crops,(4%)
• urban areas (2%)
• olive-groves (13%)
• vineyards(1%)
• uncultivated land, permanent meadow, shrubby natural vegetation (3%)
• woodlands dominated by chestnut tree, pasture (very steep surfaces), woodlands dominated by deciduous forest (oaks). (16%)
• others (2%)

Figure 10: Land use map of Rendina Basin

Figure 11: Historical land use map 1963 (by Cotecchia and Lonoce, 1963) Legend: Zone boschive (woodlands); Zone a vigneto e oliveto (Vineyard and olivejards); sietemazioni a gira poggio (terraces); zona a seminativo cerelicolo (arable land - cereals); eroisone e calanchi (intense erosion processes and calanchi (badlands)); zone franose( landslides); erosione di sponda (river bank erosion)