Vegetation Cover Changes in Ngorongoro Conservation Area from 1975 to 200: The Importance of Remote Sensing Images

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dc.contributor.authorNiboye, Elliott P.
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-02T13:46:05Z
dc.date.available2016-05-02T13:46:05Z
dc.date.issued2010-03
dc.description.abstractNgorongoro conservation area is a multiple land-use system established in 1959 to provide for both wildlife conservation and economic development of resident Maasai pastoralists. A study was conducted by analyzing remote sensing images (Landsat MSS 1975, Landsat TM 1991, and Landsat TM 2000) in order to determine trends in vegetation cover changes between 1975 and 2000. The results indicates that major changes in the study area from 1970 to 2000 involved increase in woody vegetation cover types including forest (+ 48.7%), bush land (+42.7%); and loss of scrubland (-29.1%) and grasslands (-37.0%). Other changes involved invasion of highland grassland by unpalatable grass species (-34.4%). The period covered was associated with restrictive conservation policies that disrupted traditional pastoral mobility restricting large herds of livestock on highland areas that induced range deterioration. It is concluded that pastoral land use system has preserved the savanna landscape in Ngorongoro area whereas land-use policies that disrupts traditional pastoral land use systems threaten a breakdown of savanna ecosystem that supports a tourism industry in the area.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNiboye, E.P., 2010. Vegetation cover changes in Ngorongoro conservation area from 1975 to 2000: The importance of Remote Sensing Images.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1874­9232
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1781
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBentham Publicationsen_US
dc.subjectNgorongoro conservation areaen_US
dc.subjectConservation policiesen_US
dc.subjectNon-equilibrium modelsen_US
dc.subjectVegetation cover changeen_US
dc.subjectPastoral systemsen_US
dc.subjectLandsat imageryen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleVegetation Cover Changes in Ngorongoro Conservation Area from 1975 to 200: The Importance of Remote Sensing Imagesen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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