Land Use Data for Latitude 48.25 Longitude 16.75

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

Locations

Central Marchfeld
Lobau
March/Thaya riverine forest
Riverine forests on the Danube east of Vienna

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Sugar beat
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

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.