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Table 3 Total area (square meters) of vegetation within two kilometers of 156 different villages in Belize

From: Spatial correlations of mapped malaria rates with environmental factors in Belize, Central America

 

Area(%)

 

Orange

Stann

Vegetation type

Corozal (n = 30)

Walk (n = 22)

Belize (n = 25)

Cayo (n = 34)

Creek (n = 16)

Toledo (n = 29)

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)