Land Use Data for Latitude 6.25 Longitude -3.25

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

Locations

Dadieso Forest Reserve
Eastern Guinean forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.