Land Use Data for Latitude 47.25 Longitude -2.25

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

Locations

Baie de Vilaine
Baie de Vilaine
Estuaire de la Loire - Baie de Bourgneuf
Grande Brière, marais de Donges et du Brivet
Marais de Brière
Marais du Mès, baie et dunes de Pont-Mahé, étang du Pont de Fer, île Dumet
Marais salants de Guérande, traicts du Croisic, dunes de Pen Bron
Traicts et marais salants de la Presqu'île Guérandaise

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Podzoluvisols

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
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

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.