Land Use Data for Latitude 43.75 Longitude 23.75

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

Locations

Bistreţ
Confluenţa Jiu: Dunăre
Ibisha Island
Island near Gorni Tzibar
Zlatiata
Zlatiata

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.