Land Use Data for Latitude 45.75 Longitude 2.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Plateaux de Millevaches et de Gentioux |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestockSparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Temperate humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BarleyCereals and cereal products
Rapeseed
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)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
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.
