Land Use Data for Latitude 19.25 Longitude 73.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
BuffaloesCattle
Goats
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
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.
