干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Consistent Changes in Land-Use/Land-Cover in Semi-Arid Areas: Implications on Ecosystem Service Delivery and Adaptation in the Limpopo Basin, Botswana

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DOI	10.3390/land11112057
	Consistent Changes in Land-Use/Land-Cover in Semi-Arid Areas: Implications on Ecosystem Service Delivery and Adaptation in the Limpopo Basin, Botswana
	Mugari, Ephias; Masundire, Hillary
通讯作者	Mugari, E
来源期刊	LAND
EISSN	2073-445X
出版年	2022
卷号	11 期号:11
英文摘要	Ecosystems in semi-arid areas remain essential to securing livelihoods and aiding climate change adaptation. However, land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) is the leading driver of biodiversity, ecosystem services, habitat, and ecosystem loss in most rural areas of developing countries. We evaluated LULCC in the Bobirwa sub-district of Botswana between 1995 and 2015. We employed the supervised classification's maximum likelihood algorithm on the 1995, 2005, and 2016 Landsat images to establish the implications of LULCC on the delivery of provisioning ecosystem services (ES) and ecosystem-based adaptation in the Limpopo Basin part of Botswana. Five major LULC classes-vegetation, cropland, bare land, built-up areas, and water bodies-were identified in the sub-district. The decline in vegetation by 50.67 km(2)/year between 1995 and 2016 was characterized by an increase in croplands (34.02 km(2)/year). These changes were attributed to the growing human population that induced farming households to expand croplands. Government programs also encouraged agricultural expansions by offering free inputs and compensating smallholder farmers for land preparation. Higher agricultural yields remained critically low while the loss of vegetated areas to croplands threatened biodiversity, habitats, and the sustainability of provisioning ES through impaired ecosystem functions. There is an urgent need to arrest all unnecessary agricultural expansions and enhance agricultural productivity from current land parcels. The government and other relevant stakeholders also need to strengthen the ecosystem management capacities of local communities and support them to develop and implement biodiversity-based village action plans. Engaging communities through participatory, biodiversity-based action planning promotes biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of ecosystem resources.
英文关键词	ecosystem-based adaptation LULCC provisioning ecosystem services semi-arid areas Limpopo Basin Botswana
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000895188200001
WOS关键词	IMPACTS ; CLASSIFICATION ; BIODIVERSITY ; COMMUNITIES ; CATCHMENT
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/393701
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mugari, Ephias,Masundire, Hillary. Consistent Changes in Land-Use/Land-Cover in Semi-Arid Areas: Implications on Ecosystem Service Delivery and Adaptation in the Limpopo Basin, Botswana[J],2022,11(11).
APA	Mugari, Ephias,&Masundire, Hillary.(2022).Consistent Changes in Land-Use/Land-Cover in Semi-Arid Areas: Implications on Ecosystem Service Delivery and Adaptation in the Limpopo Basin, Botswana.LAND,11(11).
MLA	Mugari, Ephias,et al."Consistent Changes in Land-Use/Land-Cover in Semi-Arid Areas: Implications on Ecosystem Service Delivery and Adaptation in the Limpopo Basin, Botswana".LAND 11.11(2022).