Land Use Data for Latitude 29.75 Longitude 103.25

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

Locations

Em Ei Shan Scenic Area
Emei Shan
Emei Shan Natural and Historical Heritage Reserve
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Potatoes
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil Types

Alisols
Anthrosols (Soils with prominent characteristics that result from human activity)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10
10 to 20
20 to 30
30 to 40
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.