Land Use Data for Latitude -16.25 Longitude 49.25

Locations

Reserve de la Biosphere du Mananara Nord

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km²)

2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 100