Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude -1.25

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

Locations

Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Sheep

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Lixisols
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75

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.