Land Use Data for Latitude 55.25 Longitude 40.25

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

Locations

Central Meshchera lake system
Meshchersky

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Potatoes

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

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)

2 to 10
50 to 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.