Landscape change effects on habitat quality in a forest biosphere reserve: Implications for the conservation of native habitats

W Mengist, T Soromessa, GL Feyisa - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic pressures have caused spatial and temporal patterns of Land-Use Land
Cover (LULC) change. The LULC change has a significant influence on the quality of natural …

Improving near-real time deforestation monitoring in tropical dry forests by combining dense Sentinel-1 time series with Landsat and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2

J Reiche, E Hamunyela, J Verbesselt… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Combining observations from multiple optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites
can provide temporally dense and regular information at medium resolution scale …

Robust monitoring of small-scale forest disturbances in a tropical montane forest using Landsat time series

B DeVries, J Verbesselt, L Kooistra, M Herold - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Remote sensing data play an important role in the monitoring of forest changes. Methods
are needed to provide objective estimates of forest loss to support monitoring efforts at …

The effect of elevation on species richness in tropical forests depends on the considered lifeform: results from an East African mountain forest

L Cirimwami, C Doumenge, JM Kahindo, C Amani - Tropical Ecology, 2019 - Springer
Elevation gradients in tropical forests have been studied but the analysis of patterns
displayed by species richness and elevation have received little attention. We examined …

Altitudinal patterns of species diversity and phylogenetic diversity across temperate mountain forests of northern China

W Zhang, D Huang, R Wang, J Liu, N Du - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The spatial patterns of biodiversity and their underlying mechanisms have been an active
area of research for a long time. In this study, a total of 63 samples (20m× 30m) were …

[HTML][HTML] Space-time detection of deforestation, forest degradation and regeneration in montane forests of Eastern Tanzania

E Hamunyela, P Brandt, D Shirima, HTT Do… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Naturally isolated montane forests in East Africa are hotspots of biodiversity, often
characterised by high species endemism, and are fundamental contributors to water …

Semi-forest coffee cultivation and the conservation of Ethiopian Afromontane rainforest fragments

R Aerts, K Hundera, G Berecha, P Gijbels… - Forest Ecology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Coffea arabica shrubs are indigenous to the understorey of the moist evergreen montane
rainforest of Ethiopia. Semi-forest coffee is harvested from semi-wild plants in forest …

Species composition, plant community structure and natural regeneration status of Belete moist evergreen montane forest, Oromia regional state, Southwestern …

K Gebrehiwot, K Hundera - Momona Ethiopian Journal of Science, 2014 - ajol.info
Belete forest is one of the very few remnant moist evergreen montane forests in Ethiopia.
The objective of this work was to study the vegetation structure, composition and Natural …

Coffee landscapes as refugia for native woody biodiversity as forest loss continues in southwest Ethiopia

G Tadesse, E Zavaleta, C Shennan - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
Land-use changes threaten biodiversity and ecosystem services. Some of the last remaining
forest fragments in Ethiopia, and the world's only habitats that retain genetically diverse wild …

[HTML][HTML] Forest fragmentation in a forest Biosphere Reserve: Implications for the sustainability of natural habitats and forest management policy in Ethiopia

W Mengist, T Soromessa, GL Feyisa - Resources, Environment and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest fragmentation is a landscape-level process that comprises forest loss and changes in
spatial patterns. Effective forest conservation programs thus require a comprehensive …