Land Use Data for Latitude 56.75 Longitude 21.75

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

Locations

Skrunda fish-ponds
Skrundas zivju diki
Uzava meadows
Uzavas augstece

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 drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Potatoes

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Luvisols
Podzols
Urban, mining

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

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.