Land Use Data for Latitude 52.75 Longitude 10.25

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

Locations

Bornriethmoor
Breites Moor
Entenfang Boye und Bruchbach
Große Heide bei Unterlüß und Kiehnmoor
Henneckenmoor bei Scheuen
Kleingewässer bei Dalle
Moor- und Heidegebiete im Truppenübungsplatz Munster-Süd
Örtze mit Nebenbächen
Südheide und Aschauteiche bei Eschede

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
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)
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

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
Niedersachsen-Ridel Werk (Processing Plant)Potassium
Niedersachsen-Riedel (Underground)Potassium, Salt

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.