Land Use Data for Latitude 56.75 Longitude 70.75

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

Locations

North flood-lands of Ishim river

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Boreal drylands
Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Other grain (dried) crops
Potatoes

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Podzoluvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10

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.