Land Use Data for Latitude 46.25 Longitude 49.25

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

Locations

Kazakhstan portion of the river Volga's Delta: Zhambay

Agricultural Land Uses

Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands
Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Potatoes
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

30 to 59
60 to 89

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Sand Dunes

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50

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.