Vegetation
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Date
1991
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Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team
Abstract
Natural vegetation provides us with an array of products and services that are vital for our survival and balanced development. Vegetation untouched by human activity probably no longer exists in Nigeria. Farming, logging, grazing, hunting, exploitation for a variety of products, urbanization, and infrastructural development, all heightened by burgeoning human and livestock populations, have reduced our plant cover to a patchwork of farmlands, plantations, and secondary vegetation at various stages of regrowth and maturity.
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Natural vegetation, Forest, Coastal vegetation, Mangrove, Freshwater swamp communities, Riparian forests, Lowland rain forest, Forest belt, Savanna, Derived savanna, Guinea savanna, Sahel savanna, Plateau mosaic vegetation, Savanna vegetation, Wetlands, Uses of wetlands, Deforestation, Causes of deforestation, Reforestation, Conservation
Citation
Isichei, A. O. (1991) Vegetation. In Nigeria's Threatened Environment: a National Profile. Ibadan: Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team.