Land Use Data for Latitude 5.25 Longitude 7.25

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

Locations

Cross-Niger transition forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - 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-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 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.