Land use and land cover change within and around the greater Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania
dc.contributor.author | Kija, Hamza Khalid | |
dc.contributor.author | Ogutu, Joseph Ochieng | |
dc.contributor.author | Mangewa, Lazaro Johana | |
dc.contributor.author | Bukombe, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Verones, Francesca | |
dc.contributor.author | Graae, Bente Jessen | |
dc.contributor.author | Kideghesho, Jafari Ramadhani | |
dc.contributor.author | Said, Mohammed Yahya | |
dc.contributor.author | Nzunda, Emmanuel Fred | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-25T12:24:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-25T12:24:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.description | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Land use and land cover (LULC) changes can pose profound impacts on wildlife habitats, abundance and distribution and on human-dominated landscapes. We investigated LULC changes in the Greater Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania, for a period of 41 years from 1975 to 2015. Specifically, we mapped LULC types for 1975, 1995 and 2015 and assessed the corresponding changes during 1975-1995, 1995-2015 and 1975-2015. We used the random forest classification algorithm to classify Multispectral Scanner (MSS), Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (+ETM) and Operational Land Imager (OLI) into eight main classes. We obtained accuracies of 88.4%, 90.6% and 93.4% with Kappa Indices of Agreement (KIA) of 0.86, 0.87 and 0.91 for 1975, 1995 and 2015, respectively. Grassland, shrubland and woodland were the major LULC types throughout 1975-2015 with percentage coverages of 50.6%, 23.7% and 20.9% for 1975; 54.2%, 23.5% and 15.9% for 1995; and 57.0%, 23.8% and 8.9% for 2015, respectively. Overall, woodland cover (-11.1%) was converted to most of the other cover types during 1975-2015. The loss of woodland cover is due to increasing human population size, agriculture, settlements and policy changes fires and elephant browsing. Effective conservation policies and regulation of socio-economic activities in the ecosystem and its buffer area are essential to ameliorate declining vegetation cover, especially along the protected areas boundaries. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2328-5788 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2328-580X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4465 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Science Publishing Group | en_US |
dc.subject | GIS and Remote Sensing | en_US |
dc.subject | Land use and cover change | en_US |
dc.subject | Land cover transformation | en_US |
dc.subject | Random forest classification | en_US |
dc.subject | Serengeti ecosystem | en_US |
dc.subject | Wildlife habitats | en_US |
dc.title | Land use and land cover change within and around the greater Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.url | http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ajrs | en_US |
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