Land Use Data for Latitude 39.75 Longitude -7.75

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

Locations

Portas de Ródão e Vale Mourão

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Temperate drylands
Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Cereals and cereal products
Fruit tree
Grapes
Maize
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Oil-bearing crops
Olives

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179
180 to 209
240 to 269

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.