Plant Diversity and Vegetation Structure in Encroached and Non-encroached Areas of Borana Rangelands: The Case of Hallona and Medhacho Pastoralist Associations.pdfVIP
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JournalofAgriculturalScienceandTechnologyA4(2014)787-796
Earliertitle:JournalofAgriculturalScienceandTechnology,ISSN I939—1250
doi:l0.17265/2161.6256/2014.O9.010
PlantDiversityandVegetationStructureinEncroached
andNon—-encroachedAreasofBoranaRangelands:The
CaseofHallonaandMedhachoPastoralistASSoCiations
NiguseBekeleDirbaba,M ekuriaArgaw Denboba2andGemedoDalleTussie
』.DepartmentofNaturalResourceManagement,AmboUniversity,Ambo19,Ethiopia
2.EnvironmentalScienceProgram.AddisAbabaUniversity.AddisAbaban 76.Ethiopia
3.EthiopianInstituteofBiodiversiyt,AddisAbaba80119,Ethiopia
Received:October7,2013/Published:September20,2014
Abstract:TheBoranarangelandsareimportantareasofcattleproduction inEthiopia.However,theserangelandsarethreatenedby
theincreasingchangesinthenaturalvegetationfrom grassandforbsdominatedintounpalatablebushywoodyvegetationresultingin
the1OSSofsomeofthehighlydesirablegrassspecies.Thisstudywasconductedtoassesstheimpactsofbushencroachmentonthe
biodiversitry.structureandcoverofthe nativevegetation in bushencroached and non—encroachedsites.Vegetation datawere
collected rfom bothsitesbylayingquadrateplotsalongtransectsusingasystematicsamplingmethod.Accordingtotheresults,
highernumberofspecieswasrecordedinthenon—encroachedsitesthanthatintheencroachedsites.Thediversity indicesforthe
non—encroachedandtheencroachedsiteswere3.16and2.67.respectively.Theabundanceandcoveranalysisindicatedhtattherewas
highdensityandcoverofherbaceousspeciesinthenon-encroachedsite.Therewasasignificantlyhigherdensityofwoodyspecies
coverintheencroachedsite.Generally,thebushencroachmentintheBoranarangelandshashamperedthediversityofthenative
vegetation,particularlythegrassesandforbsandreducedthegroundcover,exposinglargepartsoftherangelandsforsoilerosion
andotherdegradationprocess.
Keywords:Rangeland,bushencroachment,encroached,non-encroached,diversity,shrubs
1.Introduction 1and area in the continent and support a larg
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