Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wildlife Habitat Quality in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
| العنوان: | Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wildlife Habitat Quality in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem |
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| المؤلفون: | Joseph O. Ogutu, Lazaro J. Mangewa, Jafari Ramadhani Kideghesho, John Bukombe, Francesca Verones, Emmanuel F. Nzunda, Hamza Kija, Bente J. Graae, Mohammed Yahya Said |
| المصدر: | Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 6, p 2440 (2020) Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 6 |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, Game reserve, Geography, Planning and Development, Wildlife, TJ807-830, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, TD194-195, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, serengeti ecosystem, Renewable energy sources, Ecosystem services, invest model, savannah, Wildlife management, Ecosystem, GE1-350, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, threats, Land use, Environmental effects of industries and plants, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, National park, business.industry, Environmental resource management, Environmental sciences, Geography, Habitat, quality, protected areas, buffer, business |
| الوصف: | Understanding habitat quality and its dynamics is imperative for maintaining healthy wildlife populations and ecosystems. We mapped and evaluated changes in habitat quality (1975&ndash 2015) in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem of northern Tanzania using the Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model. This is the first habitat quality assessment of its kind for this ecosystem. We characterized changes in habitat quality in the ecosystem and in a 30 kilometer buffer area. Four habitat quality classes (poor, low, medium and high) were identified and their coverage quantified. Overall (1975&ndash 2015), habitat quality declined over time but at rates that were higher for habitats with lower protection level or lower initial quality. As a result, habitat quality deteriorated the most in the unprotected and human-dominated buffer area surrounding the ecosystem, at intermediate rates in the less heavily protected Wildlife Management Areas, Game Controlled Areas, Game Reserves and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the least in the most heavily protected Serengeti National Park. The deterioration in habitat quality over time was attributed primarily to anthropogenic activities and major land use policy changes. Effective implementation of land use plans, robust and far-sighted institutional arrangements, adaptive legal and policy instruments are essential to sustaining high habitat quality in contexts of rapid human population growth. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2071-1050 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6c23fb5e34817bbc3b3be9819ff571ef https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/6/2440 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....6c23fb5e34817bbc3b3be9819ff571ef |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20711050 |
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