Land Use Data for Latitude -34.75 Longitude 19.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Dyer Island Nature Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - 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
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Mediterranean humidMediterranean drylands
Subtropical drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
Soil Types
AcrisolsArenosols (Sandy)
Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)
Unknown
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
5 to 10Agricultural 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.
