Land Use Data for Latitude 58.25 Longitude -3.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Caithness Cliffs East Caithness Cliffs Loch Watten |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherUrban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Boreal drylandsTemperate humid
Livestock
CattleSheep
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Podzols
Unknown
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
010 to 50
50 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.
