Land Use Data for Latitude 57.25 Longitude -2.75

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

Locations

Bluemill
Correen Hills
Forest of Birse
Glen Tanar
Glen Tanar
Hill of Towanreef
Mortlach Moss
Muir of Dinnet
Muir of Dinnet
River Dee

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Podzols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

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.