Land Use Data for Latitude 51.25 Longitude 4.75

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

Locations

Arendonk, Merksplas, Oud-Turnhout, Ravels en Turnhout
Bos- en heidegebieden ten oosten van Antwerpen
De Maatjes, Wuustwezelheide en Groot Schietveld
De Zegge
Demervallei
Gebieden ten noorden van Turnhout en Ravels
Heesbossen, Vallei van Marke en Merkske en Ringven met valleigronden langs de Heerlese Loop
Het Blak, Kievitsheide, Ekstergoor en nabijgelegen Kamsalamanderhabitats
Klein en Groot Schietveld
Mechels Rivierengebied, Antwerpen
Vennen, heiden en moerassen rond Turnhout
Zegge

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

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)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Podzols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
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

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
(Facility) Beerse Copper Refinery (Processing Plant)Copper
(Facility) Beerse Copper Smelter (Processing Plant)Copper
(Facility) Olen Copper Refinery (Processing Plant)Copper
(Facility) Olen Smelter (Processing Plant)Cobalt, Copper

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.