Land Use Data for Latitude 4.75 Longitude -55.25

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

Locations

Brownsberg Nature Park (BB)

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Fruit tree (forestry plantations only)
Fruits
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Oranges
Plantains

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359
above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40

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.