Suitable Habitat Zone Analysis in Allidegi Wildlife Reserve, Ethiopia: a Case Study for Grevy’s Zebra
| dc.contributor.advisor | Berhan, Getachew (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mesfin, Yared | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-16T12:32:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T14:12:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-16T12:32:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T14:12:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Currently natural and anthropogenic effects are causing changes in wildlife suitable habitat status and distribution. This resulted in heterogeneous habitat matrix of landscape. Meanwhile, limited range of methods for studying suitable habitat analysis leads to have limited information and knowledge. Application of GIS and remote sensing for wildlife suitable habitat analysis increases monitoring of suitable habitat distribution and assists in assessing suitable habitat variables and their respective influences. The GIS based multicriteria evaluation for suitable habitat analysis presented in this study used to analyze Grevy’s zebra suitable habitat distribution in Allidegi wildlife reserve through integrating habitat factors with expertise opinion. This enables to evaluate and characterize Grevy’s zebra suitable habitat status and distribution across the study area. The objectives of this study were to contribute a better understanding of suitable habitat distribution of an endangered Grevy’s zebra in Allidegi wildlife reserve by using GIS and remote sensing. Further, Grevy’s zebra suitable habitat index had been developed through identifying and assessing the relative importance of Grevy’s zebra suitable habitat parameters for an improved management in the study area. Vegetation cover, slope, proximity to water point, settlement and road were identified as the major Grevy’s zebra habitat defining factors. Hence, their influences were analyzing and reclassified for evaluating the suitable habitat. The relative importances of the factors were determined through key informant interview and their weights were determined through analytical hierarchy process. GIS based multi-criteria evaluation was used to combine the factors map and their respective weight to produce final suitability map. Among the selected suitable habitat factors of Grevy’s zebra grassland areas found to be the most important factor in the habitat suitability index with weight of 45%. The final suitable habitat map showed that 19% (272 kmï ) are of the reserve found to be highly suitable habitat for Grevy’s zebra and 25% (368 km2) moderately suitable habitat and the rest 56% (820km2) of areas found to be unsuitable. Integrating this study results into conservation planning and management practices of the reserve would enhance decision making utility. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/23319 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Analytical Hierarchy Process | en_US |
| dc.subject | Geographical Information System | en_US |
| dc.subject | Grevy’s | en_US |
| dc.subject | Zebra | en_US |
| dc.subject | Habitat Suitability Index | en_US |
| dc.subject | Multi-Criteria Evaluation | en_US |
| dc.title | Suitable Habitat Zone Analysis in Allidegi Wildlife Reserve, Ethiopia: a Case Study for Grevy’s Zebra | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |