Land Use Data for Latitude 46.25 Longitude 0.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| BOIS DE L'HOSPICE, ETANG DE BEAUFOUR ET ENVIRONS CAMP DE MONTMORILLON, LANDES DE SAINTE-MARIE REGION DE PRESSAC, ETANG DE COMBOURG |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherRainfed 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
Crops
BarleyCereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rapeseed
Sunflower Seed
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 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.
