Impacts of Recent Climate Trends and Human Activity on the Land Cover Change of the Abbay River Basin in Ethiopia

Figure 9

Diagram of natural, human, and climate impacts of land cover change of Abbey river basin in 2001–2013. Note: the arrows indicate a direction of gains and losses. The purple arrow indicates the impact of human activity which leads to the intensification of cultivation land and urbanization, the red arrow indicates the impact of the rise of temperature on the forest and water ecosystem, the yellow arrow indicates the impact of human and natural factor that has an influence on the natural ecosystem, and blue arrow indicates natural and other factors that have an impact on the ecosystem (Table 4).