Land Use Data for Latitude 44.25 Longitude 27.25

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

Locations

Ciocăneşti: Dunăre
Iezerul Călăraşi
Lake Bugeac
Lake Gălăţui
Reserve Srebarna
Srebarna
Srebarna

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
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119
120 to 149

Soil Types

Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Solonchaks (Saline)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Calarasi Steel Combinate (Processing Plant)Iron

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.