Land Use Data for Latitude -23.25 Longitude -44.25

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

Locations

Ilha Grande
Ilha Grande
Ilha Grande State Park
Praia do Sul State Biological Reserve
Tamoios Ecological Station

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics perhumid
Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Plantains
Soybeans
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329
330 to 359
above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
5 to 8
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
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30

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.