Land Use Data for Latitude 47.75 Longitude 40.75

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

Locations

Dono-Donetskoye flood-plain
Kundryuchinskiye sands

Agricultural Land Uses

Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Wheat

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30

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.