Table 1 Proportion of different land use/land cover categories around Wular Lake
From: Influence of land use/land cover on the water chemistry of Wular Lake in Kashmir Himalaya (India)
LULC class parameters | Catchment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wular I | Madhmatti | Erin | Wular II | Wular periphery | |
Agricultural land | 30.1 | 28.4 | 14.3 | 28.2 | 47.0 |
Alpine grassland | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0 |
Built up | 9.0 | 4.9 | 2.1 | 4.9 | 6.7 |
Dense forest | 10.8 | 8.4 | 15.7 | 8.4 | 0 |
Forest plantation | 2.4 | 6.6 | 0.2 | 6.6 | 14.0 |
Horticultural land | 16.2 | 10.8 | 3.1 | 10.8 | 19.1 |
Snow-covered/glacial area | 0 | 0.2 | 23.0 | 0.2 | 0 |
Sparse forest | 16.9 | 17.5 | 38.8 | 17.5 | 0 |
Wasteland | 11.0 | 16.9 | 0.5 | 16.9 | 0.1 |
Water bodies | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.2 |
Wetland | 1.1 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 4.2 | 10.6 |