Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude 77.25

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

Locations

Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
Kulahupuzha Reserved Forest
Mundanthurai Sanctuary
Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary
Peppara Sanctuary
Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary
Shendurney Sanctuary
Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary
Tirunelveli Reserve Forest

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
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%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40
40 to 50

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.