Land Use Data for Latitude -16.25 Longitude -41.25

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

Locations

Reserva Biológica da Mata Escura

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans
Cocoa Beans (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Plantains
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

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

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
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.