BMC Ecology

Table 1 Land use/land cover classes and changes from 1992–2019 in Teltele rangeland

From: Dynamics of forage and land cover changes in Teltele district of Borana rangelands, southern Ethiopia: using geospatial and field survey data

LU LC class	Land cover (km²)														Changes within periods (%)
	1992		1995		2000		2005		2010		2015		2019		1992–95	95–00	00–05	05–10	10–15	15–19	1992–19
	A	%	A	%	A	%	A	%	A	%	A	%	A	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
AL	98	0.95	115.5	1.1	118	1.15	118	1.1	121.5	1.2	150.5	1.5	162.9	2.5	15.2	1.8	0.3	3.0	19.3	7.6	39.8
FL	1382	13.5	1355.1	13	1328	13.0	1320	12.9	1284	12.5	1251	12.2	1212	11.8	− 2.0	− 2.0	− .6	− 2.8	− 2.6	− 3.2	− 14
GL	1009	9.85	907.6	8.8	724	7.05	715.5	7.0	698.6	6.8	654	6.5	620	6.0	− 11.4	− 25.4	− 1	− 2.4	− 6.8	− 5.5	− 62.7
WL	30.7	0.3	27.6	0.3	21.3	0.2	20.7	0.2	19.5	0.2	18	0.1	15.2	0.15	− 9.8	− 29.5	− 3	− 6.0	− 9.0	− 18.4	− 102
BL	535	5.2	548.8	5.4	583	5.6	591.2	5.8	604	5.9	620.6	6.0	624.3	6.1	2.5	5.9	1.4	2.1	2.7	5.9	14.3
SL	7201	70.2	7301	71	7482	73.0	7490	73	7528	73.4	7561	73.7	7622	74.3	1.4	2..4	0.1	0.5	0.4	0.8	5.5
Total	10,256	100	10,256	100	10,256	100	10,256	100	10,256	100	10,256	100	10,256	100

AL agricultural land, FL forest land, GL grass land, WL wetland, BL bare land, SL shrub land. The pixel number change to Km² by using the resolution (300 m) or 0.09 km²

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