Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude 76.25

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

Locations

Amarambalam Reserved Forest: Nilambur
Mukurthi National Park (Nilgiris)
Silent Valley National Park
Silent Valley National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Plinthosols

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40
40 to 50
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.