IMPACT OF LAND-USE PATTERNS ON PLANT DIVERSITY IN ECOLOGICAL ZONES OF KANO STATE
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016), Articles
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016)

IMPACT OF LAND-USE PATTERNS ON PLANT DIVERSITY IN ECOLOGICAL ZONES OF KANO STATE

Articles
Published 2016-08-05
MAGAJI A.B.
Department of Forestry Technology, Audu Bako College of Agriculture, Dambatta. P.M.B. 3159, Kano State, Nigeria
TELLA I.O.
bDepartment of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, P.M.B 2076, Adamawa State, Nigeria
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Keywords

Anthropogenic activity
Vegetation
Landscape
Savanna formations

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MAGAJI A.B., & TELLA I.O. (2016). IMPACT OF LAND-USE PATTERNS ON PLANT DIVERSITY IN ECOLOGICAL ZONES OF KANO STATE. Journal of Forest Science and Environment, 1(2), 7–14. Retrieved from https://jfse.org.ng/index.php/home/article/view/15
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Abstract

The land-use pattern of a region is an outcome of its natural and socio-economic factors and their utilization by man in time and space. Land-use has become a central component in current strategies of managing natural resources and monitoring environmental changes. Urban expansion has increased the exploitation of natural resources and has changed land use and landscape patterns. Rapid urbanization, therefore, brings opportunities for new urban developments, however, it also has brought serious losses of arable land, forest land and water bodies. Plant diversity change is a major concern of global environmental changes. Remote sensing and Geographic Information system (GIS) provide fundamental tools used in the investigation of synoptic view and multi temporal Land use patterns of Kano state. The study was conducted to determine the impact of land use on plant diversity in the ecological zones of Kano state. Transects were laid in each of the sampling points to enumerate plant species, all from a quadrant size of 100 x 100m (10,000sqm). A total number of plant species enumerated for Sahel savanna were 46 species, 78 species for Sudan savanna and 94 species for the Northern Guinea savanna respectively. Land use of the state was determined through satellite imagery in a staggered form of ten years interval of 1973, 1983 1993, 2003 and 2013, respectively. The data obtained in percentages and square kilometers was analyzed using descriptive statistics, where the built up areas as at 1973 was found to be 1.32% out of the total land mass of the study area to a value increase of 5.6% in the year 2013, a clear significant difference of 4.28%. Identified increase in land use for infrastructural development has given rise to land and vegetation loss where Agriculture, Water body and Game reserves were affected by the anthropogenic activity of man in favor of built up areas.

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