- Title
- Towards SDG 15.3: The biome context as the appropriate degradation monitoring dimension
- Creator
- Xoxo, Sinetemba, Mantel, Sukhmani K, de Vos, Alta, Mahlaba, Bawinile, le Maître, David, Tanner, Jane
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/415961
- Identifier
- vital:71304
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.07.008"
- Description
- Accurate and reliable estimation of terrestrial ecosystem degradation is critical to meeting the challenge of reversing land degradation. Remote sensing data (especially land productivity dynamics) is commonly used to estimate land degradation, and this study uses the TRENDS.EARTH toolbox for the period covering 2000–2018, demonstrating the benefit of tracking the degradation process (SDG 15.3.1) at a biophysical unit. Contributing to the country’s SDG 15.3.1 monitoring, anthropogenic degradation was estimated based on RESTREND land productivity, biome-specific land cover trends, and soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. Underlying degradation was evaluated by reclassifying a 28-year national land cover change dataset to match the UNCCD land cover legend. Analysis results indicate that land productivity changes (especially in stable grasslands, afforested, and cropland areas) mainly influenced the degradation status of the biome (19.9% degraded and 25.6% improvement). Global datasets also suggest that land cover and SOC had a minimal contribution (more than 2%) to anthropogenic degradation dynamics in the biome between 2000 and 2018. The GIS analysis showed that long-term, the major contributors to the biome’s underlying 9% anthropogenic degradation were woody proliferation into the Grassland Biome, urban expansion, and wetland drainage.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (13 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Environmental Science and Policy, Xoxo, S., Mantel, S., De Vos, A., Mahlaba, B., Le Maitre, D. and Tanner, J., 2022. Towards SDG 15.3: The biome context as the appropriate degradation monitoring dimension. Environmental Science and Policy, 136, pp.400-412, Environmental Science and Policy volume 136 p. 400 2022 1873-6416
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- Rights
- Open Access
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Mantel, Sukhmani (Dr)
de Vos, Alta (Dr)
Tanner, Jane L (Dr)
RU Department of Environmental Science
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Institute for Water Research, including the Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality (IWR)
SDG 15. Life On Land
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