Table 3 |
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Total area (square meters) of vegetation within two kilometers of 156 different villages in Belize |
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Area(%)
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| Orange |
Stann |
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| Vegetation type |
Corozal (n = 30) |
Walk (n = 22) |
Belize (n = 25) |
Cayo (n = 34) |
Creek (n = 16) |
Toledo (n = 29) |
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| Agriculture |
190.0 (74) |
148.2 (61) |
32.6 (11) |
246.2 (70) |
66.7 (42) |
230.9 (71) |
| Broadleaf hill forests |
0 |
0 |
4.1 (1) |
44.8 (13) |
7.1 (4) |
51.1 (16) |
| Basin mangrove forests |
0 |
0 |
5.7 (2) |
0 |
1.0 (1) |
0 |
| Coastal fringe Rhizophora mangle-dominated forests |
4.3 (2) |
0 |
0.2 (<0.5) |
0 |
2.1 (1) |
2.7 (1) |
| Dwarf mangrove scrub |
0.2 (<0.5) |
0 |
0.9 (<0.5) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Disturbed scrub |
0 |
1.3 (1) |
5.5 (2) |
6.2 (2) |
1.9 (1) |
1.6 (<0.5) |
| Freshwater swamp forest |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.8 (<0.5) |
| Inland well-drained shrubland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.8 (<0.5) |
0 |
0 |
| Lowland broadleaf moist evergreen seasonal forests |
8.1 (3) |
8.5 (4) |
88.0 (30) |
27.7 (8) |
6.4 (4) |
20.5 (6) |
| Lowland broadleaf moist semi-evergreen scrub forest |
1.9 (1) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8.0 (5) |
0 |
| Lowland needle-leaf moist forest |
0 |
12.7 (5) |
54.4 (19) |
2.2 (1) |
7.9 (5) |
1.4 (<0.5) |
| Mixed hill forests |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1.7 (<0.5) |
0 |
0 |
| Needle-leaf hill forests |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15.4 (4) |
0 |
0 |
| Mixed mangrove scrub |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5.5 (3) |
0 |
| Riverine mangrove forests |
17.8 (7) |
29.2 (12) |
5.2 (2) |
0 |
1.1 (1) |
0.2 (<0.5) |
| Seasonal swamp forests |
15.4 (6) |
19.1 (8) |
32.5 (11) |
0 |
1.2 (1) |
10.9 (3) |
| Seasonally water-logged fire-induced shrubland of the plains |
0 |
6.5 (3) |
20.7 (7) |
1.1 |
41.5 (26) |
3.6 (1) |
| Seasonally water-logged scrub |
0 |
5.8 (2) |
6.9 (2) |
6.5 (2) |
0 |
0 |
| Tall herb wetland communities |
1.9 (1) |
9.2 (4) |
3.8 (1) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Urban |
9.5 (4) |
0 |
20.9 (7) |
0.6 (<0.5) |
7.0 (4) |
2.5 (1) |
| Water |
8.5 (3) |
2.0 (1) |
9.5 (3) |
0 |
1.7 (1) |
0.1 (<0.5) |
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Hakre et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:6 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-6 |
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