Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude 76.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Avalanche (Nilgiri) Bison Swamp (Nilgiri) Cairn hill Reserve Forest (Nilgiri) Longwood Shola: Kothagiri Naduvattam Nilgiri-Naduvattam |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - 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
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
BuffaloesCattle
Poultry
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239Soil Types
AcrisolsLuvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
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)
40 to 5050 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.
