Land Use Data for Latitude -18.25 Longitude 48.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Mangerivola Special Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics perhumid
Livestock
CattlePoultry
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Stimulant crops
Growing Period (days)
330 to 359above 360
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
5 to 88 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
75 to 100Agricultural 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.
