Land use and land cover changes and their effects on the landscape of Abaya-Chamo basin, Southern Ethiopia

Land

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Yohannes, Ashebir Wolde ^a   Cotter, Marc ^a   Kelboro, Girma ^b   Dessalegn, Wubneshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abaya Chamo Basin; Land management; Land use land cover changes; Landscape change; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040777125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land7010002     Document Type: Article

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