Land Use Data for Latitude -18.75 Longitude 44.25

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

Locations

Bemamba Wetland Complex
Manambolomaty wetland complex and Tsimembo Classified Forest

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Wetlands - Mangrove

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 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.