Land Use Data for Latitude -8.25 Longitude -47.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Cerrados do Nordeste de Tocantins |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherGrasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Beans DryCereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton
Soybeans
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269Soil Types
AcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
2 to 10
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 4050 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.
