Table 2 Area coverage and rate of LULC changes between 1987 and 2003 in the Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia
From: Conversion of savanna rangelands to bush dominated landscape in Borana, Southern Ethiopia
LULC | 1987 km2 | Cover % | 1995 km2 | Cover % | 2003 km2 | Cover % | 1987–1995 | 1995–2003 | 1987–2003 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CA km2 | CE % | CR % | CA km2 | CE % | CR % | CA km2 | CE % | CR % | |||||||
WL | 1209.5 | 22.3 | 1478.9 | 27.3 | 1369.5 | 25.2 | 269.4 | 22.3 | 2.8 | −77.5 | −5.2 | −0.7 | 160,0 | 11.7 | 0.7 |
BL | 1197.1 | 22.1 | 1161.2 | 21.4 | 1444.0 | 26.6 | −35.9 | −3.0 | −0.4 | 288.4 | 24.8 | 3.1 | 252.5 | 17.5 | 1.1 |
GL | 2172.1 | 40.0 | 1925.2 | 35.5 | 1994.4 | 36.8 | −246.8 | −11.4 | −1.4 | 92.6 | 4.8 | 0.6 | −154.2 | −7.7 | −0.5 |
SGR | 713.1 | 13.1 | 705.3 | 13.0 | 379.0 | 7.00 | −7.6 | −1.1 | −0.1 | −318.8 | −45.2 | −5.7 | −326.5 | −86.1 | −5.4 |
BAL | 110.1 | 2.0 | 109.1 | 2.0 | 108.2 | 2.0 | −1.1 | −1.0 | −0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.03 | −0.8 | −0.7 | −0.1 |
CUL | 16.6 | 0.3 | 28.1 | 0.5 | 59.3 | 1.1 | 11.5 | 69.5 | 8.7 | 31.5 | 111.9 | 14.0 | 43.0 | 72.5 | 4.5 |
SET | 7.9 | 0.2 | 18.7 | 0.4 | 72.0 | 1.3 | 10.8 | 137.6 | 17.2 | 53.3 | 249.3 | 31.2 | 64.1 | 79.8 | 5.0 |
Total | 5426 | 100 | 5426 | 100 | 5426 | 100 | |||||||||