Land Use Data for Latitude 22.75 Longitude 120.75

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

Locations

Taitung Hungyeh Village Taiwan Cycas Nature Preserve
Tawushan Nature Preserve
Tawushan Nature Reserve and Hsuangkuei Lake
Yellow Butterfly Valley

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands
Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics perhumid
Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Fruit tree (forestry plantations only)

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299
300 to 329
330 to 359
above 360

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%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500

Slopes (degrees)

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

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.