Land Use Data for Latitude 31.25 Longitude -91.75

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

Locations

Catahoula, Dewey Wills, and Three Rivers

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton
Sorghum
Soybeans

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Acrisols
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km²)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10

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.