Land Use Data for Latitude 52.25 Longitude 8.75

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

Locations

Auf dem Bockshorn
Große Aue
Hardisser Moor
Heisterholz
Kirche in Rahden mit Wochenstube des Großen Mausohr
Mindenerwald
Osterwald
Rotenberg, Bärenkopf, Habichtsberg und Wihupsberg
Salzquellen bei der Loose
Sparrenburg
Stollen Oberlübbe, Elfter Kopf
System Else/Werre
Unternammerholz
Vogelschutzgebiet 'Bastauniederung'
Wald nördlich Bad Salzuflen
Wälder bei Porta Westfalica
Weißes Moor

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
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

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Maize
Potatoes
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)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Luvisols
Podzols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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
Wohlverwahrt-Nammen (Underground)Iron

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.