Land Use Data for Latitude 6.25 Longitude 9.25

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

Locations

Cross River National Park: Okwangwo Division
Obudu Plateau
Takamanda Forest Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

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)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Acrisols
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
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
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
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.