Land Use Data for Latitude 53.25 Longitude 10.25

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

Locations

Borghorster Elblandschaft
Die Reit
Elbe zwischen Geesthacht und Hamburg
Gewässersystem der Luhe und unteren Neetze
GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht
Hamburger Unterelbe
Heuckenlock/Schweenssand
Kirchwerder Wiesen
Truppenübungsplätze Munster Nord und Süd
Untere Seeve- und Untere Luhe-Ilmenau-Niederung
Zollenspieker/Kiebitzbrack

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs

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

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
HamburgPotassium, Boron-Borates, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite

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.