Land Use Data for Latitude 35.25 Longitude 114.25

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

Locations

Yubei Huanghe Gudao Nature Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

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
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

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)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30
30 to 40
40 to 50
50 to 75

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.