Impacts of land use and land cover changes on carbon stocks (1992-2052) Using geospatial technologies in Gena district, Southwest Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Land uses offer considerable capacity for both short-term and long-term carbon storage. However, human-induced land use/land cover (LULC) changes affect the carbon stock under different land uses. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the impacts of observed and predicted LULC changes on carbon stocks from 1992 to 2052 in the Gena district, Southwest Ethiopia. The supervised maximum likelihood classification technique was employed to classify LULC from Landsat imagery, while the CA-Markov and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) models were utilized for LULC and carbon stock prediction, respectively.Carbon stock was analyzed using samples from five carbon pools (aboveground, belowground, litter, deadwood, and soil) across five major land use types (forest, sh

SUBMITTER: Gitima G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12484934 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature