Land Use Data for Latitude -22.75 Longitude -44.75

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

Locations

Atlantic Coast restingas ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Onions+Shallots Green
Potatoes
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Vegetables

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

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)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30
30 to 40

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Se PetibaREE

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.