Fig. 5: Land cover change associated with population pressure.
From: Accelerating land cover change in West Africa over four decades as population pressure increased
a Land cover change intensities (averages and standard deviations) decrease progressively with distance from points newly transitioned to settlement. The 2000–2013 interval reflects higher overall change intensities than the 1975–2000 interval. b Types of land cover transitions found within windows of 10, 40, and 300 km distance from new settlement points for the 2000–2013 interval by sub-region. “Other transition” encompasses the sum of individual transition types that each make up <5% of the respective windows. “n” denotes the number of pixels taken into account.
