Land Use Data for Latitude 6.75 Longitude 4.75

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

Locations

Nigerian lowland forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Roots tubers
Yams

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 100

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.