Land Use Data for Latitude 29.25 Longitude 100.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralismSparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
PolarBoreal drylands
Temperate humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Sheep
Growing Period (days)
90 to 119120 to 149
150 to 179
180 to 209
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Terrain
Mountain > 2500Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 10Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 30Agricultural 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.
