Land Use Data for Latitude -23.25 Longitude 28.75

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

Locations

Blouberg vulture colonies

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Sorghum

Growing Period (days)

30 to 59

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Kastanozems (Dark brown soils rich in organic matter)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50
50 to 75

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.