Land Use Data for Latitude -13.25 Longitude 48.75

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

Locations

Ambavanankarana wetlands

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

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.