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Resource typeJournal Article
Title(s)Land use intensification causes the spatial contraction of woody-plant based ecosystem services in southwestern Ethiopia
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1427
Handle20.500.14123/1496
CreatorDuguma, Dula Wakassa  0000-0003-4581-8351
Law, Elizabeth  0000-0003-4456-1259
Shumi, Girma  0000-0001-7386-6815
Schultner, Jannik  0000-0002-5865-7975
Abson, David J.  0000-0003-3755-785X
Fischer, Joern  0000-0003-3187-8978
AbstractIntegrating 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.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsEcosystem; Service Provision; Community Composition; Food Production; Species; Biodiversity; Woody Plants; Ethiopia
Year of publication in PubData2024
Publishing typeParallel publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2024-05-17
Creation contextResearch
Faculty / departmentFakultät Nachhaltigkeit
NotesThis publication was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Date of Availability2024-11-07T11:38:59Z
Archiving Facility Medien- und Informationszentrum (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg  02w2y2t16)
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Resource typeJournal
Title of the resource typeCommunications Earth and Environment
IdentifierDOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01435-2
Publication year2024
Volume5
Issue1
Number263
Number typeArticle
PublisherSpringer Nature
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