Land use intensification causes the spatial contraction of woody-plant based ecosystem services in southwestern Ethiopia
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In: Communications Earth and Environment, Vol. 5, No. 1, 263, 12.2024.
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T1 - Land use intensification causes the spatial contraction of woody-plant based ecosystem services in southwestern Ethiopia
AU - Duguma, Dula W.
AU - Law, Elizabeth
AU - Shumi, Girma
AU - Schultner, Jannik
AU - Abson, David J.
AU - Fischer, Joern
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - Integrating biodiversity conservation and food production is vital, particularly in the tropics where many landscapes are highly biodiverse, and where people directly depend on local ecosystems services that are linked to woody vegetation. Thus, it is important to understand how woody vegetation and the benefits associated with it could change under different land-use scenarios. Using a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study in southwestern Ethiopia, we modeled current and future availability of woody plant-based ecosystem services under four scenarios of landscape change. Land-use scenarios with intensified food or cash crop cultivation would lead to the contraction of woody-plant based ecosystem services from farmland to forest patches, increasing pressure on remaining forest patches. This raises questions about the viability of conventional intensification combined with land sparing—where conservation and production are separated—as a viable strategy for conservation in tropical landscapes where woody-plant based ecosystem services are vital to the lives of local communities.
AB - Integrating biodiversity conservation and food production is vital, particularly in the tropics where many landscapes are highly biodiverse, and where people directly depend on local ecosystems services that are linked to woody vegetation. Thus, it is important to understand how woody vegetation and the benefits associated with it could change under different land-use scenarios. Using a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study in southwestern Ethiopia, we modeled current and future availability of woody plant-based ecosystem services under four scenarios of landscape change. Land-use scenarios with intensified food or cash crop cultivation would lead to the contraction of woody-plant based ecosystem services from farmland to forest patches, increasing pressure on remaining forest patches. This raises questions about the viability of conventional intensification combined with land sparing—where conservation and production are separated—as a viable strategy for conservation in tropical landscapes where woody-plant based ecosystem services are vital to the lives of local communities.
KW - Environmental planning
KW - Environmental Governance
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U2 - 10.1038/s43247-024-01435-2
DO - 10.1038/s43247-024-01435-2
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85193482094
VL - 5
JO - Communications Earth and Environment
JF - Communications Earth and Environment
SN - 2662-4435
IS - 1
M1 - 263
ER -