Land Use Data for Latitude 41.25 Longitude 26.25

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

Locations

Asvestades-Vrisika area
KOILADA ERYTHROPOTAMOU: ASVESTADES, KOUFOVOUNO, VRYSIKA
Northern Evros and Ardas riparian forest
OREINOS EVROS - KOILADA DEREIOU
Protected area of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli forest
VOUNA EVROU

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton
Sunflower Seed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Planosols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5
10 to 20
30 to 40

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Bauxite - GreeceAluminum

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.