Land Use Data for Latitude 52.75 Longitude 5.75

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

Locations

De Weerribben
Ketelmeer en Vossemeer
Lake Fluessen, Vogelhoek and Morra
Lake Ketelmeer
Lake Oudegaasterbrekken
Lake Witte and Zwarte Brekken
Lake Zwartemeer
Rottige Meenthe and Brandemeer
Zwarte Meer

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.