Land Use Data for Latitude 54.25 Longitude -3.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Drigg Coast Duddon Estuary Duddon Mosses Morecambe Bay Roudsea Wood and Mosses Subberthwaite, Blawith and Torver Low Commons Wast Water Yewbarrow Woods |
Agricultural Land Uses
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Boreal drylandsTemperate humid
Livestock
BuffaloesCattle
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BarleyCereals and cereal products
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
240 to 269
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
5 to 10Agricultural 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.
