Land Use Data for Latitude 25.25 Longitude 107.75

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

Locations

Maolan Biosphere Reserve
Maolan Nature Reserve
Mulun Nature Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Potatoes
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Acrisols
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%

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50
50 to 75
above 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.