Land Use Data for Latitude 10.25 Longitude 78.75

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

Locations

Vettangudi Bird Sanctuary

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Plinthosols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.