The Effects of Landscape Change on Plant Diversity and Structure in the Bale Mountains National Park, Southeastern Ethiopia

Table 1

Landscape structural characteristic of the BMNP from 1985 to 2017.

Year	NP	AREA_MN (ha)	SHAPE_AM	TCA (km^2)	ED (m/m^2)	ENN_MN (m)	IJI (%)
1985	25864	8.42	24.97	1568.91	60.53	107.27	77.69
1995	30582	7.12	24.12	1489.10	69.18	105.22	79.29
2005	29329	7.42	29.36	1471.02	66.44	111.94	70.78
2017	36267	6.00	29.67	1402.59	74.02	109.21	75.46
%	40.22	−28.68	18.83	−10.60	22.28	1.81	−2.87

Note. The negative sign of percentage implies a decreasing trend, and the positive sign implies an increasing trend.