Land Use Data for Latitude -14.25 Longitude 48.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Tsaratanana Strict Nature Reserve and adjacent areas |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsCoffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269270 to 299
300 to 329
330 to 359
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
No data
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
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.
