Land Use Data for Latitude 6.75 Longitude 4.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Nigerian lowland forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
GoatsPigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasCassava
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Roots tubers
Yams
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269Soil Types
Leptosols (Shallow soils)Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
75 to 100Agricultural 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.
