Land Use Data for Latitude 6.75 Longitude -3.75

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

Locations

Bossematie Forest Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269

Soil Types

Acrisols
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km²)

10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.