Landscape Dynamics (landDX) an open-access spatial-temporal database for the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands.

ABSTRACT: The savannas of the Kenya-Tanzania borderland cover >100,000 km² and is one of the most important regions globally for biodiversity conservation, particularly large mammals. The region also supports >1 million pastoralists and their livestock. In these systems, resources for both large mammals and pastoralists are highly variable in space and time and thus require connected landscapes. However, ongoing fragmentation of (semi-)natural vegetation by smallholder fencing and expansion of agriculture threatens this social-ecological system. Spatial data on fences and agricultural expansion are localized and dispersed among data owners and databases. Here, we synthesized data from several research groups and conservation NGOs and present the first release of the Landscape Dynamics (la

SUBMITTER: Tyrrell P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8766582 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature