Land Use Data for Latitude 9.75 Longitude 10.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Yankari National Park |
Agricultural Land Uses
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Sheep
Crops
CassavaCereals and cereal products
Maize
Yams
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
Soil Types
Leptosols (Shallow soils)Lixisols
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
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 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.
