Land Use Data for Latitude 10.25 Longitude -10.75

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

Locations

Guinean montane forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fonio
Maize
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
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
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Aredor MineDiamond
KindiaAluminum
TougueAluminum, Silica, Ferrosilicon
TougueAluminum
Tougue-DabolaAluminum

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.