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Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
A preliminary assessment of ethiopian sacred grove status at the landscape and ecosystem scales
Diversity, Volume 5, No. 2, Year 2013
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Description
The northern Ethiopian landscape is dotted with small patches of church forests that are religious centers for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC). These sacred groves are what remain of the once vast tropical Afromontane dry forest. Herein we review the landscape pattern of sacred groves in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, and their local scale nutrient status at two sites, Zahara and Debresena. A total of 1,488 sacred groves were inventoried within the study area, yielding an overall density of one sacred grove for every twenty square kilometers. Sacred groves averaged a little over five hectares and were separated from one another by more than two kilometers. At the local scale we found that soil carbon and nitrogen stocks have decreased significantly between the forest interior and the clearing indicating decreased soil fertility. Together our data indicate that these sacred groves are vulnerable to loss because of their small average size, isolation from seed sources, and decreasing soil status. © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Authors & Co-Authors
Cardelús, Catherine L.
United States, Hamilton
Colgate University
Scull, Peter R.
United States, Hamilton
Colgate University
Hair, Joshua
United States, Hamilton
Colgate University
Baimas-George, Maria R.
United States, Hamilton
Colgate University
Lowman, Margaret Dalzell
United States, Raleigh
North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
Wassie, Alemayehu
Ethiopia, Bahir Dar
Bahir Dar University
Statistics
Citations: 62
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.3390/d5020320
e-ISSN:
14242818
Research Areas
Environmental
Sexual And Reproductive Health
Study Locations
Ethiopia