Land Use Data for Latitude 12.75 Longitude 76.75

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

Locations

Adichunchunagiri Wildlife Sanctuary
Melkote Temple Wildlife Sanctuary
Sulekere Lake

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.