Land Use Data for Latitude 55.75 Longitude 62.25

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

Locations

Tirikul' and Kadkul' lakes

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Potatoes
Sugar beat
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119

Soil Types

Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Greyzems
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Planosols
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
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.