Land Use Data for Latitude 33.75 Longitude -90.75

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

Locations

Mississippi lowland forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Seed Cotton
Soybeans
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50

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.