Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia

Land management to increase food production while conserving the environment and associated ecosystem services (ESs) is one of the major development and research challenges of the 21st Century. Any land-use practice or change to obtain a particular ecosystem service affects the other ES positively o...

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Main Authors: Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Kassawmar, Tibebu, Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele, Kassa, Habtemariam, Verchot, Louis V., Quintero, Marcela
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114343
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author Abera, Wuletawu
Tamene, Lulseged D.
Kassawmar, Tibebu
Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele
Kassa, Habtemariam
Verchot, Louis V.
Quintero, Marcela
author_browse Abera, Wuletawu
Kassa, Habtemariam
Kassawmar, Tibebu
Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele
Quintero, Marcela
Tamene, Lulseged D.
Verchot, Louis V.
author_facet Abera, Wuletawu
Tamene, Lulseged D.
Kassawmar, Tibebu
Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele
Kassa, Habtemariam
Verchot, Louis V.
Quintero, Marcela
author_sort Abera, Wuletawu
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description Land management to increase food production while conserving the environment and associated ecosystem services (ESs) is one of the major development and research challenges of the 21st Century. Any land-use practice or change to obtain a particular ecosystem service affects the other ES positively or negatively. The dynamics of these changes is more marked in biodiversity hotspot areas like UNESCO registered Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve in southwestern Ethiopia. We used a time series InVEST modeling framework to estimate six ESs and analyze their spatial and temporal dynamics due to land-use/cover change over the last 31 years. Pearson correlation coefficients and k-mean clustering were employed to analyze tradeoffs/synergies and to cluster ESs supply spatially. The analysis also considers land-use change impact in the three management zones (core, transition and buffer) of the Yayo biosphere area. The production efficient frontier is used to identify the optimal combination of ESs and to suggest where an increase of one ES is possible without decreasing the others. Mostly, the highest change is observed in the transition zone followed by buffer zones. Positive correlation (synergies) are observed between regulating ecosystem services. Negative correlations (tradeoffs) are observed between provision ecosystem services. The clustering analysis shows that the spatial ESs can be divided in two clusters (bundle): cluster 1 with “High regulating ESs” that can be characterized by core zone and some forest patches in the central part of the biosphere reserve, and cluster 2 with “High provisioning ESs areas'' that can be characterized by cultivated lands at transition and buffer zones. The result shows that the existing ES pairs are far from the Pareto efficient combination(s), confirming that landscape optimization for ES bundles are rarely possible on the ground due to many reasons and indicating the need for well thought land restoration strategies and land management practices that are forest type and context specific.
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spelling CGSpace1143432025-11-12T05:31:12Z Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia Abera, Wuletawu Tamene, Lulseged D. Kassawmar, Tibebu Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele Kassa, Habtemariam Verchot, Louis V. Quintero, Marcela land use change ecosystem services nature reserves coffea synergism cambio de uso de la tierra servicios de los ecosistemas reservas naturales land management Land management to increase food production while conserving the environment and associated ecosystem services (ESs) is one of the major development and research challenges of the 21st Century. Any land-use practice or change to obtain a particular ecosystem service affects the other ES positively or negatively. The dynamics of these changes is more marked in biodiversity hotspot areas like UNESCO registered Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve in southwestern Ethiopia. We used a time series InVEST modeling framework to estimate six ESs and analyze their spatial and temporal dynamics due to land-use/cover change over the last 31 years. Pearson correlation coefficients and k-mean clustering were employed to analyze tradeoffs/synergies and to cluster ESs supply spatially. The analysis also considers land-use change impact in the three management zones (core, transition and buffer) of the Yayo biosphere area. The production efficient frontier is used to identify the optimal combination of ESs and to suggest where an increase of one ES is possible without decreasing the others. Mostly, the highest change is observed in the transition zone followed by buffer zones. Positive correlation (synergies) are observed between regulating ecosystem services. Negative correlations (tradeoffs) are observed between provision ecosystem services. The clustering analysis shows that the spatial ESs can be divided in two clusters (bundle): cluster 1 with “High regulating ESs” that can be characterized by core zone and some forest patches in the central part of the biosphere reserve, and cluster 2 with “High provisioning ESs areas'' that can be characterized by cultivated lands at transition and buffer zones. The result shows that the existing ES pairs are far from the Pareto efficient combination(s), confirming that landscape optimization for ES bundles are rarely possible on the ground due to many reasons and indicating the need for well thought land restoration strategies and land management practices that are forest type and context specific. 2021-08 2021-07-21T08:14:42Z 2021-07-21T08:14:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114343 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Abera, W., Tamene, L., Kassawmar, T., Mulatu, K., Kassa, H., Verchot, L., & Quintero, M. (2021). Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia. In Ecosystem Services 50: 101338. ISSN 2212-0416
spellingShingle land use change
ecosystem services
nature reserves
coffea
synergism
cambio de uso de la tierra
servicios de los ecosistemas
reservas naturales
land management
Abera, Wuletawu
Tamene, Lulseged D.
Kassawmar, Tibebu
Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele
Kassa, Habtemariam
Verchot, Louis V.
Quintero, Marcela
Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia
title Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia
title_full Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia
title_fullStr Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia
title_short Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia
title_sort impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve southwestern ethiopia
topic land use change
ecosystem services
nature reserves
coffea
synergism
cambio de uso de la tierra
servicios de los ecosistemas
reservas naturales
land management
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114343
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