Land Use Data for Latitude 53.25 Longitude 9.75

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

Locations

Auetal und Nebentäler
Este-Unterlauf
Fischbeker Heide
Großes Moor bei Wistedt
Lüneburger Heide
Moore bei Buxtehude
Moore bei Sittensen
Moorgürtel
Schwarzes Moor und Seemoor

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Rapeseed
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)
Podzols
Urban, mining

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

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.