Ecological Processes

Table 7 LULC transition matrix showing major changes in the landscape 1984–2016 (%)

From: Competition for land resources: driving forces and consequences in crop-livestock production systems of the Ethiopian highlands

	To final state (2016)
	Bushland	Grazing land	Crop land	Plantation	Settlement	Total 1984	Loss
From the initial state (1984)
Bushland	199.6	95.0	23.4	5.9	0.0	323.9	124.3
Grazing land	50.2	194.4	460.2	179.8	8.0	892.6	698.2
Cropland	5.8	116.6	782.7	184.1	39.8	1129.0	346.2
Plantation	3.6	20.7	43.8	9.6	2.0	79.9	70.1
Settlement	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
						1186.3
Total (2016)	259.2	426.5	1310.1	379.4	49.1
Gain	59.6	232.3	527.4	369.8	49.1
Net change	− 64.7	− 465.9	181.2	299.7	49.1
Net persistence	− 0.3	− 2.4	0.2	31.1	–

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