Land Use Data for Latitude -16.75 Longitude 46.25

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

Locations

Madagascar dry deciduous forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
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
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

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.