Land Use Data for Latitude 57.75 Longitude 22.25

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

Locations

Ances purvi un mezi
Dizkalni un Kalkupes ieleja
Irbe valley and Dizpurvs
Kura kurgu
Siplase
Slitere and Zilie kalni
Sliteres nacionalais parks

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Barley
Potatoes

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Podzols
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

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.