Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 35.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| East African montane forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Sheep
Crops
BananasBeans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee
Coffee Green
Grain (dried)
Maize
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Spices (forestry plantations only)
Stimulant crops
Tea
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
270 to 299
300 to 329
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Planosols
Regosols (Other)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 75Agricultural 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.
