Land Use Data for Latitude 45.25 Longitude -1.25

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

Locations

Cote médocaine : Dunes boisées et dépression humides
Côte Médocaine: dunes boisées et dépressions humides
Estuaire de la Gironde : marais du Nord Médoc

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Sunflower Seed
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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Regosols (Other)
Solonchaks (Saline)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

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.