Land Use Data for Latitude 51.25 Longitude 23.75

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

Locations

Central European mixed forests ecoregion
Chelm calcareous marshes
Chelmskie Torfowiska Weglanowe
Dolina Srodkowego Bugu
Lasy Sobiborskie
Middle Bug river valley
Torfowiska Chelmskie
Zakhidnyj Bug river valley

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Rye
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Podzoluvisols
Podzols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10
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.