Land Use Data for Latitude 43.25 Longitude 3.25

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

Locations

Basse plaine de l'Aude
EST ET SUD DE BEZIERS
ETANG DE CAPESTANG
Etang de Capestang
Etangs de Vendres, Pissevache et Lespignan
ETANGS DU NARBONNAIS
Etangs Narbonnais
Montagne de la Clape

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Fruit tree (forestry plantations only)
Fruits
Grapes
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Sunflower Seed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269
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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 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.