Table 2 Description of the five clusters
Characteristics in the geographical space (Figure3) | Characteristics in the environmental variable space (Figure4) | Name of thelandscape context | |
|---|---|---|---|
Light gray disks | Sites located very near the Comté river | Far from gold mining sites and unfragmented forest; close to floodplains, the Comté river and water (from remote sensing); low altitude and slope; long or medium lengths of Comté river banks within 200 m | Riparian area |
Red triangles | Sites located on a plain, corresponding to a zone devoted to mixed vegetable gardening | Far from gold mining sites and unfragmented forest; close to buildings, water, basins and greenhouses; low proportion of forest; medium number of building; medium and high number of greenhouses | Market gardens |
Yellow stars | Sites located on hills within a zone devoted to fruit culture | High altitude and slope, far from water, the Comté river, flood plains, greenhouses and basins; within 200 m: no buildings, greenhouses or basin; short lengths of roads; length of the Comté river null; high proportion of forest | Orchards |
Blue diamonds | Isolated sites in non or slightly degraded forest | Shares the majority of Orchards landscape context features, but exhibits higher distances to buildings, shorter lengths of road within 200 m and lower distances to unfragmented forest | Forest |
Black squares | Sites situated between the market gardens and the orchards | Difficult to characterize by interpreting the FAMG. Field observations tend to associate such a cluster with i) the presence of very degraded forest patches which are difficult to exploit because of swamps, or ii) numerous patches of fallowed land (4 years and older), corresponding to a stage of the crop rotation | High fallows |