Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Vegetation Diversity of Tropical Highland in Ethiopia

Table 1

The different LULC classes with area coverage.

Land use land cover class	1973		1987		2000		2008
	Area (km^2)	Percent	Area (km^2)	Percent	Area (km^2)	Percent	Area (km^2)	Percent
Agricultural land	136.39	1.81	572.19	7.50	1362.94	17.60	735.39	9.52
Afromontane grassland	1538	20.39	1499.12	19.65	539.81	6.97	697.58	9.03
Afromontane rainforest	2545	33.74	2111.8	27.68	2482.47	32.05	2527.67	32.72
Upper montane forest	641.19	8.50	720.9	9.45	1038.93	13.41	1005.93	13.02
Ericaceous forest	1193.93	15.83	1569.06	20.56	747.84	9.65	984.29	12.74
Isolated Erica shrub	545.62	7.23	502.3	6.58	250.7	3.24	441.35	5.71
Afromontane dwarf shrub and herbaceous formation	544.3	7.22	353.4	4.63	577.74	7.46	729.28	9.44
Barren and burned area	350.59	4.65	229.16	3.00	648.84	8.38	269.65	3.49
Afroalpine grass land	47.89	0.63	66.08	0.87	80.88	1.04	272.25	3.52
Water bodies	0.8	0.01	5.98	0.08	15.62	0.20	62.78	0.81
Total	7543.71	100	7629.99	100	7745.77	100	7726.17	100