Land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics alter ecosystem services values (ESVs), yet
quantitative evaluations of changes in ESVs are seldom attempted. Using Munessa–
Shashemene landscape of the Ethiopian highlands as an example, we showed estimate of
changes in ESVs in response to LULC dynamics over the past four decades (1973–2012).
Estimation and change analyses of ESVs were conducted, mainly, by employing GIS using
LULC datasets of the year 1973, 1986, 2000 and 2012 with their corresponding global value …

Despite their importance as sources of ecosystem services supporting the livelihoods of
millions of people, forest ecosystems have been changing into other land use systems over
the past decades across the world. While forest cover change dynamics have been widely
documented in various ecological systems, how these changes affect ecosystem service
values has received limited attention. In this study we assessed the impact of land-use/land-
cover dynamics on ecosystem service values in dry Afromontane forest in Northern Ethiopia …