Land Use Data for Latitude 9.75 Longitude 77.25

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

Locations

Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary
Srivilliputhur Wildlife Sanctuary

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269
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)

0
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.