Land Use Data for Latitude 44.25 Longitude 26.75

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

Locations

Garvansko Marsh
Lake Mostiştea
Malak Preslavets marsh
Olteniţa: Ulmeni
Pozharevo Island
Pozharevo Island
Stenata
Stenata

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
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
Oil-bearing crops
Sunflower Seed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Greyzems

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.