Plant Diversity and Vegetation Structure in Encroached and Non-encroached Areas of Borana Rangelands: The Case of Hallona and Medhacho Pastoralist Associations.pdfVIP

Plant Diversity and Vegetation Structure in Encroached and Non-encroached Areas of Borana Rangelands: The Case of Hallona and Medhacho Pastoralist Associations.pdf

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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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