The impacts of land-use and land-cover change on wetland ecosystem service values in peri-urban and urban area of Bahir Dar City, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Northwestern Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 3 The six land use/land cover (LULC) categories, their biome equivalents and valuation coefficients used for ecosystem service values estimation in USD/ha/year

LULC categories	Equivalent Biome	Ecosystem service coefficients USD/ha/year (1994)
Cultivated land	Cropland	225.56^a
Grazing land	Grassland	293.25^a
Vegetation	Tropical forest	986.69^a
Built-up area	Urban	0.00
Water body	Water body	8103.50^a
Wetland	Inland wetlands	4204.02^b

^aValue coefficients adopted from Kindu et al. (2016). ^bOwn modified value coefficient using the Economic of Ecosystem and Biodiversity valuation database (Van der Ploeg et al. 2010)