A5083275988- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Forest Management and Policy
- African history and culture analysis
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Water resources management and optimization
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Forest ecology and management
- Coffee research and impacts
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
University of Botswana
2022-2025
Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources
2022-2025
Addis Ababa University
2014-2024
University of Bonn
2005-2009
Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute
2009
College of the Ozarks
2002
Ango, T. G., L. Börjeson, F. Senbeta, and K. Hylander. 2014. Balancing ecosystem services disservices: smallholder farmers’ use management of forest trees in an agricultural landscape southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology Society 19(1): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06279-190130
We assessed the land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics and its associated changes in ecosystem service values for Toke Kutaye district (ca 72,700 ha) central highlands of Ethiopia. Four satellite images study area, distributed between 1973 2014 were analyzed using Arc GIS software to assess LULC area. In addition, we carried out an services valuation, based on identified types database. Six area (forest, shrub/bush land, grassland, cultivated settlement, bare land). Forest decreased 83% 2014....
Forests provide multiple ecosystem services ranging from local livelihoods and socio-economic benefits to global ecological services. Despite these benefits, human activities have put immense strain on forest resources, resulting in degradation, impoverishment of the environment, loss livelihoods. Hence, monitoring cover change identifying its drivers are essential for developing sustainable management strategies that restore resources This study examined trends changes around Semien...
Water hyacinth spans extensive geographic areas in tropical and semi-tropical regions. Its impact on livelihoods is connected to the production of crops, fish, livestock, other activities that influence costs returns for rural smallholders. This invasive weed affects crop by invading farmland adjacent lakes has an livestock covering grazing land meant animal feed. Although several studies have been conducted Ethiopia, livelihood water scarcely analyzed, quantified, documented. study...
Forest cover changes in southwest Ethiopia have significant social and environmental implications. This study explored the primary drivers effects of forest from 1986 to 2019 region. A mixed‐methods approach was employed, combining socioeconomic data, geospatial both global locally adapted ecosystem services value (ESV) coefficients. The findings indicated a decline attributed its conversion human‐modified land types, with approximately 87.3 percent respondents acknowledging this reduction...
Abstract Coffea arabica occurs naturally in the montane rainforests of Ethiopia, but large areas these unique forests have been converted to other land‐uses. In remaining forest, wild coffee is managed and harvested with increasing intensity because rising prices world market. This study evaluated impact management on populations forest vegetation as a basis for conservation planning southwestern Ethiopia. Vegetation surveys yield assessments were carried out unmanaged natural semi‐forest...
This study investigated the relationship between land use/land cover (LULC) changes and forested landscape fragmentation in southwestern region of Ethiopia. Satellite images from 1986, 2002 2019 were collected analyzed using standard procedures ERDAS 2015 software. Fragstat 4.2.1 software was utilized to assess by examining a raster datasets derived classified LULC map over research period. The identified seven classes area. Findings revealed substantial reduction shrubland 46.3%, dense...
Landscape dynamics are common phenomenon in the human-dominated environments whereby it can be observed that composition and configuration between landscape elements change over time. This dynamism brings about habitat loss fragmentation greatly alter ecosystem services at patch, class, levels. We conducted a study to examine of forested central highlands Ethiopia using satellite images period four decades, FRAGSTAT raster dataset was used analyze fragmentation. Our result showed five land...
Abstract We assessed the impacts of crop raiding by wild mammals on livelihoods smallholding farmers in south-western Ethiopia. Data were generated through participatory field mapping, interviews and focus groups. The results indicated that mammals, mainly olive baboons Papio anubis bush pigs Potamochoerus larvatus , most crops cultivated villages close to forests. In addition loss crops, incurred indirect costs having guard cultivate plots far from their residences, sometimes at expense...
Jiren, T. S., J. Hanspach, Schultner, Fischer, A. Bergsten, F. Senbeta, K. Hylander, and I. Dorresteijn. 2020. Reconciling food security biodiversity conservation: participatory scenario planning in southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology Society 25(3):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11681-250324
Fast coppicing plantations like Eucalyptus are becoming an ever increasingly important land use system globally, including the hotspot highlands of Northwestern Ethiopia. However, comprehensive information regarding species composition is essential for proper planning and policy decisions. The current study mapped spatial distribution globulus (hereafter referred to as Eucalyptus) identified key push factors its expansion. used a mapping procedure that uses Landsat imagery together with...
ABSTRACT The diversity and distribution of lianas were studied in five Afromontane rain forests Ethiopia. Quadrats 20 × m laid down along transects the Bonga, Berhane‐Kontir, Harenna, Yayu Maji forests. In all forests, 30,917 liana individuals belonging to 123 species 87 genera 40 plant families recorded. most species‐rich Asclepiadaceae (14), Fabaceae (9), Annonaceae (7) Cucurbitaceae (7). top 10 dominant represented 56% total number species. Over 400 other representing different life forms...
This study examines the level of forest users' participation at different stages a participatory management (PFM) program, and identifies factors that influence their in Gebradima forest, southwest Ethiopia. Data were collected from five user groups (FUGs) through household surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions. A index (PI) binary logistic regression model used to analyze data. Results revealed PI was 65.7%, 59%, 54.9% planning, implementation, monitoring stages,...