Land Use Data for Latitude 27.25 Longitude 91.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Kanglung wetlands Thimsing La |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
PolarBoreal drylands
Temperate humid
Subtropical drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Maize
Potatoes
Rice
Roots tubers
Growing Period (days)
30 to 5960 to 89
90 to 119
120 to 149
150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299
Soil Types
AcrisolsCambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Glaciers
Terrain
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%Mountain > 2500
Slopes (degrees)
8 to 1616 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 4075 to 100
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.
