Land Use Data for Latitude -13.75 Longitude 48.75

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

Locations

Réserve Naturelle Intégrale de Tsaratanana
Tsaratanana Strict Nature Reserve and surrounding areas

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299

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)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75

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.