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Table 1 Land use/land cover (LULC) classes and number of installed plots

From: Allometric models and aboveground biomass stocks of a West African Sudan Savannah watershed in Benin

Characteristics

IPCC [95] land use categories (LUCa)

Forestland

Grassland

Cropland

Settlement

Others land use

LULC

RFW

SW

SS

GL

CPF

SL

AGF

PLT

Area (ha)

341.19

5476.5

4282.56

96.57

8044.47

488.34

20.7

17.1

Percentage in the watershed

1.77

28.44

22.24

0.50

41.77

2.54

0.11

0.09

Area sampled (ha)

0.81

2.43

5.04

3.06

7.2

8

0.26

0.46

Number of establishing plots

09

27

56

34

80

08

13

23

  1. Agroforestry and plantation were seen as mitigation strategies to climate change, we therefore choose to discriminate them from cropland
  2. RFW riparian forest and woodland, SW Savanna woodland, SS shrub Savanna, GL grassland, CPF cropland and fallow, SL settlement, AGF agroforestry, PLT plantation