Land Use Data for Latitude -9.25 Longitude -35.75

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

Locations

Murici
Murici Ecological Station
Usina Cachoeira

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
75 to 100
above 100

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.