Land Use Data for Latitude 58.75 Longitude -3.25

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

Locations

Caithness Lochs
Hoy
Hoy
Loch of Stenness
Loch of Wester
Pentland Firth Islands
Scapa Flow
South Walls and Switha

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Sheep

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Podzols
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.