Morocco, Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Africa (Girma Shumi)
1. Girma Shumi, Jannik Schultner, Jan Hanspach, Patricia Rodrigues, Ine
Dorresteijn, Kristoffer Hylander, Feyera Senbeta and Joern Fischer
Woody plant diversity and composition in
rural landscapes of SW Ethiopia
Email: dugo@leuphana.de 19/13/2016
3rd African Congress for Conservation Biology, El Jadida, Morocco, September 2016
2. Outline of presentation
Background and aim of the project
Study area
Methodology
Preliminary findings
Conclusion and recommendations
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Aim of the project
• To contribute to better understanding
of biodiversity conservation and food
security co-benefits of cultural
landscape.
Specifically,
Quantify and examine woody plant
species richness and composition;
and
Identify drivers of species richness in
rural landscapes.
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• Low forest cover, coffee &
agriculture
• Low forest cover and
agriculture
• High forest cover, coffee
and agriculture
• Afromontane rainforest
• Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot
Study area
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150 randomly selected sample points
20*20m plot in forest & homegarden , and
1ha circular site/plot for farm and grazing land
Methodology
Sampling:-
Data collected/field work
Recorded all trees and shrubs species with height ≥ 1.5m;
Measured DBH of trees & shrub species with DBH ≥ 5 cm;
Collected specimen for species identification;
15-Maize,
25- Teff and
13- others
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• Rapid eye image 2015
Current distance of sample points from forest (dist15)
Cost distance
Proportion woody vegetation cover in 1ha site
(PropFC56m) and in context (PropFC200m & PropFC300)
Analysis of satellite image:
Methodology
Data analysis
1. Multivariate analysis (NMDS)
2. Regression analysis
12. Characteristics Grazing Maize Teff Others
Total plots 19 15 25 13
Mean species richness 15 18 16 19
Total abundance 9832 11206 11392 7664
Mean abundance 517 747 456 590
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Mean species richness and abundance by land use
in farmland and grazing lands
Preliminary findings
13. Characteristics Grazing Maize Teff Others
Total plots 19 15 25 13
Mean species richness 15 18 16 19
Total abundance 9832 11206 11392 7664
Mean abundance 517 747 456 590
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Mean species richness and abundance by land use
in farmland and grazing lands
Preliminary findings
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Conclusion and recommendations
1. In forest, woody plant species richness and composition differed from edge
to interior of forest:-
Coffee management
Cost distance- easy access and forest utilization or the reverse
- Edge effect
2. In farmland, species richness was similarly high and did not differ within
the arable mosaic (farmland, grazing land and home-gardens) land use:-
The proportion of conserved woody vegetation within arable land
and its context
3. From these results, considering land use management practice but not only
land use type in entire landscape mosaic – should be of paramount
importance in future conservation initiatives.