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Potential Feedback between landuse and climate change in the Rungwe tropical highland stress a critical environmental research challenge

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dc.creator Williamson, David
dc.creator Majule, Amos
dc.creator Delalande, Manuella
dc.creator Mwakisunga, Benard
dc.creator Mathe, Pierre-Etienne
dc.creator Gwambene, Brown
dc.creator Bergonzini, Laurent
dc.date 2016-03-02T07:29:54Z
dc.date 2016-03-02T07:29:54Z
dc.date 2014
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:49:52Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:49:52Z
dc.identifier David Williamson., Amos Majule., Manuela Daledale., Benard Mwakisunga., Pierre-Etiane Mathe., Brown Gwambwene and Laurent Bengozine (2014). Potential Feedback between landuse and climate change in the Rungwe tropical highland stress a critical environmental research
dc.identifier 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.11.014
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/540
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10238
dc.description Characteristic trends in landuse and climate highlight critical challenges in future resource management along the tropical topoclimosequence (TCS) of the Rungwe Volcanic Province (RVP), a major headwater biodiversity and food reservoir of Tanzania. TheRVPorography supports a coherent distribution of agroecosystems and livelihoods, from hot irrigated lowlands to endangered afromontane forests above 1500 m.a.s.l. Recent increases in deforestation, land fragmentation and soil denudation/compaction in the densely populated TCS were combinedwith a strengthenedneedandconsumption ofwaterin the lower, warmer and drier end-member. Consistent with a regional decline of the long rains, a considerable (up to 30%) decrease in annual rainfall and a pervasive decline of the Lake Masoko (LM) aquifer testifies to a strong aridification trend. We suggest here that current landuse and demographic trends likely amplified the hydrological response of the TCS to regional and global warming. Testing such a hypothesis, however, requires improved local monitoring, to allow scaling and quantification of local hydrological budgets associated with landuse impacts, and evaluationofthecontributionoftreesandagroforestrysystemsto mitigating the aridification trend.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.subject feedback
dc.subject landuse
dc.subject tropical
dc.subject environmental
dc.title Potential Feedback between landuse and climate change in the Rungwe tropical highland stress a critical environmental research challenge
dc.type Journal Article


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