Land Use Data for Latitude 51.75 Longitude 8.75

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

Locations

Afte
Bielsteinhöhle mit Lukenloch
Bleikuhlen und Wäschebachtal
Dahlberg
Donoperteich-Hiddeser Bent
Egge
Eggeosthang mit Lippischer Velmerstot
Eringerfelder Wald und Prövenholz
Eselsbett und Schwarzes Bruch
Externsteine
Heder mit Thüler Moorkomplex
Hohlsteinhöhle
Holter Wald
Kalkfelsen bei Grundsteinheim
Kiebitzteich
Langenbergteich
Sauerbachtal Bülheim
Sennebäche
Silberbachtal mit Ziegenberg
Stollen am grossen Viadukt westlich Altenbeken
Stollen Bahnlinie Kassel-Altenbeken
Strotheniederung
Tallewiesen
Vogelschutzgebiet Egge
Vogelschutzgebiet Senne mit Teutoburger Wald
Wälder bei Büren
Ziegenberg

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Rapeseed
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

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)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Luvisols
Podzols
Urban, mining

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.