Land Use Data for Latitude 24.75 Longitude 105.25

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

Locations

Longlin-Xilin

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Potatoes
Rice Paddy
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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
75 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.