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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and has highly diverse forest ecosystems. Unfortunately, this rich vegetation continues to decline at an alarming rate; 21% of its forest cover...
The Nigerian vegetation zones are described following Adekanmbi and Ogundipe (2009b) based on Keay (1959a, b) (Fig. 1). The following vegetation zones are recognized from North to South: a.
Below there is the map of Nigeria showing vegetation belts. Vegetation zones in Nigeria. As mentioned in the previous lesson, Nigeria is a state of forests and savannas. Once, a significant part of the territory was covered with dense tropical rainforests.
This study assesses the spatial and temporal changes in precipitation and its effects on vegetation greenness over six ecological zones in Nigeria. Both vegetation and climatological Satellite...
We used the Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper+ (ETM+) satellite imagery from 2003 to map Florida vegetation and land cover. All classification was conducted in ArcView using the Image Analysis extension.
Fig. 1. Sketch-map showing the distribution of established conservation areas ( Strict Natural Reserves) in Nigeria. age - and by biotic factors. The distribution of vegetation depends chiefly on the fact that the climate tends to become drier with increasing distance from the sea. The operative factors affecting the distribution
The nation’s very diverse agro-ecological zones make it an ideal producing area for a wide range of crops. From smallholder and substantial farmers to large-scale and mechanized farmers, they raise a variety of food crops, the economic, social, and nutritional relevance of which varies by agroecological zone.
