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Land cover changes as impacted by spatio-temporal rainfall variability along the Ethiopian Rift Valley escarpment 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Sofie Annys Biadgilgn Demissie Amanuel Zenebe Abraha Miro Jacob Jan Nyssen 《Regional Environmental Change》2017,17(2):451-463
Magnitudes of land cover changes nowadays can be assessed properly, but their driving forces are subject to many discussions. Next to the accepted role of human influence, the impact of natural climate variability is often neglected. In this paper, the impact of rainfall variability on land cover changes (LCC) is investigated for the western escarpment of the Raya Graben along the northern Ethiopian Rift Valley. First, LCC between 2000 and 2014 were analysed at specific time steps using Landsat imagery. Based on the obtained LCC maps, the link was set with rainfall variability, obtained by means of the satellite-derived rainfall estimates (RFEs) from NOAA-CPC. After a correction by the incorporation of local meteorological station data, these estimates prove to be good estimators for the actual amount of precipitation (ρ RFE1.0 = 0.85, p = 0.00, n = 126; ρ RFE2.0 = 0.76, p = 0.00, n = 934). By performing several linear regression analyses, a significant positive relationship between the precipitation parameter DIFF 5Y (i.e. the at-RFE pixel scale difference in five-year average annual precipitation for the two periods preceding the land cover maps) and the changes in the woody vegetation cover was found (standardised regression coefficient β = 0.23, p = 0.02, n = 108). Despite the dominance of direct human impact, further greening of the study area can be expected for the future concomitantly to a wetter climate, if all other factors remain constant. 相似文献
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Jacob Miro Frankl Amaury Hurni Hans Lanckriet Sil De Ridder Maaike Guyassa Etefa Beeckman Hans Nyssen Jan 《Regional Environmental Change》2017,17(3):777-787
Regional Environmental Change - The Simien Mountains house several endangered and endemic wildlife species and provide important ecosystem services. Despite its regional environmental importance,... 相似文献
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