Land Use Data for Latitude -16.25 Longitude 48.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Marotandrano Special Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestockSparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics perhumidWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
CassavaCereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
330 to 359
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Regosols (Other)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 210 to 50
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.
