Land Use Data for Latitude 5.25 Longitude 7.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Cross-Niger transition forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasCassava
Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Maize
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Yams
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 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.
