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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...
- Map of Nigeria showing vegetation zones and some important sites for ...
Map of Nigeria showing vegetation zones and some important...
- Map of Nigeria showing vegetation zones and some important sites for ...
The vegetation of Nigeria is diverse, in the far north and east, where there is almost no rain, the so-called Sahel (deserted) extends. There is almost no green vegetation there. On the other side of Lake Chad, on the contrary, reeds and papyrus grow thickly.
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...
Map of Nigeria showing vegetation zones and some important sites for Biodiversity. Source: Adapted from Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) [6]. Source publication. Women Role in...
Free Shapefile (.shp) and GeoJSON (.json) maps of Nigeria at both the admin and entire-country level. Commercial use allowed.
3.1 Geographical location, relief, climate, soils and Vegetation of Nigeria. The Federal Republic of Nigeria (henceforth referred to as Nigeria), is located on the West coast of Africa between latitudes 3°15’ to 13°30’ N and longitudes 2°59’ to 15°00’ E (Figure 1).
Overview. Nigeria's 356,669 square miles stretch across several climatic regions: a narrow coastal belt of mangrove swamps; a somewhat wider section of rolling hills and tropical rain forests; a still larger dry central plateau, with open woodlands and savanna; and a strip of semi-desert on the fringes of the Sahel.
