Land Use Data for Latitude -5.25 Longitude 138.25

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

Locations

New Guinea mangroves ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Crops

Cereals and cereal products

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40

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.