Land Use Data for Latitude 54.25 Longitude -2.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Asby Complex Calf Hill and Cragg Woods Leighton Moss Morecambe Bay Morecambe Bay Pavements River Kent Witherslack Mosses |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestockUrban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Boreal drylandsTemperate humid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BarleyCereals and cereal products
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Podzols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
010 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.
