Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude 79.75

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

Locations

Seguwantive mudflats

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Solonchaks (Saline)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

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.