Land Use Data for Latitude -14.75 Longitude 49.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Anjanaharibe Sud Special Reserve Reserve Speciale d'Anjanaharibe-Sud |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics perhumid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsCoffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
330 to 359Soil 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)
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
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 7575 to 100
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.
