Land Use Data for Latitude 28.25 Longitude 107.75

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

Locations

Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Potatoes
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Alisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
75 to 100
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.