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Table 4 Land use/land cover (LULC) classes and number of established plots

From: The relevance of using in situ carbon and nitrogen data and satellite images to assess aboveground carbon and nitrogen stocks for supporting national REDD + programmes in Africa

LUCa/LULC

Area (ha)

Percentage (%) in the basin

Area sampled (ha)

Number of established plots

Forestland

 Riparian forest and woodland

320.40

1.66

0.81

9

 Savannah Woodland

5447.79

28.29

2.43

27

 Shrub Savannah

4241.88

22.03

5.04

56

Grassland

 Savannah Grassland

96.48

0.50

3.06

34

Cropland

 Cropland and Fallow (Agricultural land)

8031.15

41.70

7.20

80

Settlement

 Settlement

486.72

2.53

8.00

8

Others land use

 Agroforestry

20.70

0.11

0.26

13

 Plantation

16.74

0.09

0.46

23

  1. NB: Agroforestry and plantation were identified as potential mitigation strategies to climate change. We therefore discriminated them from cropland. Percentage values do not add up to 100% since the basin also includes water bodies, roads and bare land that were not included in the table
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