Land Use Change Trends and Their Driving Forces in the Kilombero Valley Floodplain, Southeastern Tanzania

Land Use Change Trends and Their Driving Forces in the Kilombero Valley Floodplain, Southeastern Tanzania

Land use change (LUC) driven by human activities and natural factors has resulted in the global loss of native biodiversity and the alteration of ecological processes and services across different ecosystems. It is thus necessary to analyze the trends and driving factors that influence land use chan...

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Main Authors: Nangware Kajia Msofe, Lianxi Sheng, James Lyimo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-01-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
land use change
proximate drivers
underlying drivers
random forest (RF) algorithm
population growth
biophysical factors
Kilombero valley floodplain
Tanzania
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/2/505

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