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

Table 3

Changing present of land covers in 2001 and 2013.

No.	Land cover types	Initial area 2001		Final area 2013		Changing status
		km^2	%	km^2	%	km^2	%
1	Bare land	12.28	0.01	55.36	0.03	43.08	0.02
2	Cultivated land	58249.08	29.18	58784.42	29.45	535.34	0.27
3	Forest land	6460.33	3.24	3030.72	1.52	(−3429.62)	−1.72
4	Grass land	131551.69	65.91	134331.01	67.30	2779.33	1.39
5	Urban	89.45	0.04	90.10	0.05	0.65	0.0003
6	Water	3141.27	1.57	3059.82	1.53	(−81.45)	−0.04
7	Wetland	88.08	0.04	240.74	0.12	152.66	0.08