Land Use Data for Latitude 45.25 Longitude -0.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Estuaire de la Gironde : marais de la rive nord Estuaire de la Gironde : Marais du Blayais Estuaire de la Gironde : marais du Blayais Marais du Nord Médoc |
Agricultural Land Uses
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Ecosystems
Temperate humidLivestock
BuffaloesCattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsMaize
Oil-bearing crops
Sunflower Seed
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Solonchaks (Saline)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
2 to 5Agricultural 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.
