Land Use and Land Cover Change, and Woody Vegetation Diversity in Human Driven Landscape of Gilgel Tekeze Catchment, Northern Ethiopia

Table 3

Land use and land cover changes for periods 1976–1986, 1986–2008, and 1976–2008.

Land use	Periods of net change			Annual rates of change (%)
	1976–1986	1986–2008	1976–2008	1976–1986	1986–2008	1976–2008
	Area (%)	Area (%)	Area (%)	Area (%)	Area (%)	Area (%)
Forest land	−2.4	2.17	−0.23	0.24	0.1	0.007
Shrub-bush land	−16.13	−2.72	−18.85	1.613	0.12	0.59
Grazing land	−3.01	−3.9	−6.91	0.301	0.18	0.22
Cultivated land	14.35	1.14	15.49	1.435	0.05	0.48
Settlement	5.22	4.77	9.99	0.522	0.22	0.31
River bed gravel and rock (flood plain)	0.33	0.1	0.43	0.033	0.004	0.01
Bare land	1.64	−1.55	0.09	0.164	0.07	0.003