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Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change Impacts upon Ecosystem Services in Montane Tropical Forest of Rwanda : = Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+ Preparedness.

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Title/Author:	Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change Impacts upon Ecosystem Services in Montane Tropical Forest of Rwanda :/
Reminder of title:	Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+ Preparedness.
Author:	Mlotha, McArd Joseph.
Description:	1 online resource (205 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-10B(E).
Subject:	Geographic information science and geodesy. -
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ISBN:	9780438097001

Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change Impacts upon Ecosystem Services in Montane Tropical Forest of Rwanda : = Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+ Preparedness.
Mlotha, McArd Joseph.

Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change Impacts upon Ecosystem Services in Montane Tropical Forest of Rwanda :Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+ Preparedness. - 1 online resource (205 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Changes in forest cover especially changes within tropical forests, affect global climate change, together with ecosystems and forest carbon. Forests play a key role in both carbon emission and carbon sequestration. Efforts to reduce emissions through reduced deforestation and degradation of forests have become a common discussion among scientists and politicians under the auspices of the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD Programme). This dissertation research assessed the impacts of land use land cover change upon ecosystem services from a protected area focusing on forest carbon distribution and vegetation mapping using remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS). I also assessed Rwanda's preparedness in the United Nations global program, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, Measuring, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verifying (REDD+MMRV). I carried out research in Nyungwe National Park (NNP), one of four National Parks of Rwanda. NNP is a montane tropical forest located in the Albertine Rift, one of the most biodiverse places in central and east Africa. I used remote sensing and field data collection from December 2011 and July 2012 in the western part of the Park to assess distribution and quantities of aboveground (ABG) forest carbon using generalized allometric functions. Using Landsat data together with 2009 high resolution color orthophotos and groundtruthing, I analyzed land cover changes between 1986 and 2011 for NNP. The land-use land cover change analysis showed that between 1986 and 1995 there was a minor increase in forest cover from 53% to 58% while from 1995--2003 a substantial decrease in forest cover occurred. Between 2003 and 2011 was a period of recovery with forest cover increasing by 59%. Vegetation analysis based on a 2009 Park biodiversity survey yielded 13 vegetation communities based on dominant and co-dominant species. Macaranga kilimandscharica was found to be dominant in three communities, representing 42% of the Park, and co-dominant in one community, representing 7% of the Park. While ~50% of the Park is secondary forest, the change in protection status has had a positive impact upon forest cover change within the Park. Assessment of REDD+-MMRV readiness revealed that Rwanda has higher capacity and readiness in remote sensing and GIS than in forest inventory and carbon pools inventory. Lack of data to support development of emission models is a major problem at the national level which needs to be addressed.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438097001Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Geographic information science and geodesy.
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