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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...
Specific Vegetation Zones in Nigeria. Vegetation usually depends on the climate zones of the country. Vegetation belts in Nigeria reflect the tight link between the vegetation and the country’s climate: Rainforest; Fresh Water Swamp; Sahel Savanna; Short Grass Savanna; Guinea Savanna; Woodland; Marginal Savanna; Mangrove; Montane; Sudan Savanna
Free Nigeria GIS Map Files | Resources. We've created multiple GIS maps for the country of Nigeria. Below is visualization of the GIS border data we have for Nigeria. Features include: Simplified to load quickly with minimal loss of detail (637.3 KB .json file).
In fact, the hilly terrains and the poorly drained coastal areas, river flood plains and topographic depressions also have their own unique uses, so that they add to rather than diminish the ...
In Nigeria, this is evident by the late arrival of rains, drying up of streams, and small rivers that usually flow year round, and the gradual disappearance of flood-recession cropping in...
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
Nigeria has a total land area of 923,768 km ², with highly variable land cover, including tropical rainforest, Sahelian savannah, mountain plateaus and coastal plains. The country has diverse and complex vegetation types with contiguous ecological zones.
