Adawro exclosure

Adawro exclosure
Adawro exclosure
	Adawro exclosure, here with eucalypts
Location	Lim'at municipality, in Dogu’a Tembien district, Ethiopia
Nearest city	Hagere Selam
Coordinates	13°37′19″N 39°09′14″E / 13.622°N 39.154°E
Established	1999

Adawro is an exclosure located in the Dogu'a Tembien woreda of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The area has been protected by the local community since 1994.

Environmental characteristics

Average slope gradient: 70%
Aspect: the exclosure is oriented towards the northeast
Minimum altitude: 2635 metres
Maximum altitude: 2705 metres
Lithology: Basalt^[1]

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Management

As a general rule, cattle ranging and wood harvesting are not allowed. The grasses are harvested once yearly and taken to the homesteads of the village to feed livestock. Physical soil and water conservation has been implemented to enhance infiltration, and vegetation growth.

Benefits for the community

Setting aside such areas fits with the long-term vision of the communities were hiza’iti lands are set aside for use by the future generations. It has also direct benefits for the community:^[3]

improved infiltration
improved ground water availability
honey production
climate ameliorator (temperature, moisture)
carbon sequestration, dominantly sequestered in the soil, and additionally in the woody vegetation)^[4]

Water conservation

In the Adawro exclosure, more than 800 precise measurements were done in 2003 and 2004, using five runoff plots, where the volume of runoff was measured daily. The rock type (basalt), slope gradient and slope aspect were the same, the only difference was the land management and vegetation density. Whereas in degraded rangeland, 11.4% of the rainfall flows directly away to the river (runoff coefficient), this happens only for 2.5% of the rain in a recent exclosure and 3.2% in a eucalyptus forest.^[2] In 2003, the soils of the then young exclosure could hold 280 litres of water per m³, similar to the adjacent rangeland.^[1]

Improved ecosystem

With vegetation growth, biodiversity in this exclosure has strongly improved: there is more varied vegetation and wildlife.

Trees

The main tree species found in the exclosure are:^[5]^[1]

Flat top acacia (Acacia abyssinica, renamed as Vachellia abyssinica)
Golden wattle (Acacia saligna)
Rumex nervosus, a woody sorrel species
Aloe macrocarpa

Soils

Main soil type in the exclosure are Phaeozems, formed in sediment that has been trapped by the vegetation of the exclosure, and as a remnant of the original situation before deforestation. Remarkably, also in the well-protected eucalypt plantation there is some undergrowth and soil development.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Descheemaeker, K. and colleagues (2011). "Two rapid appraisals of FAO-56 crop coefficients for semiarid natural vegetationof the northern Ethiopian highlands". Journal of Arid Environments. 75 (4): 353–359. Bibcode:2011JArEn..75..353D. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.12.002.
^ ^a ^b Descheemaeker, K. and colleagues (2006). "Runoff on slopes with restoring vegetation: A case study from the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia". Journal of Hydrology. 331 (1–2): 219–241. Bibcode:2006JHyd..331..219D. doi:10.1016/j.still.2006.07.011. hdl:1854/LU-378900.
^ Jacob, M. and colleagues (2019). Exclosures as Primary Option for Reforestation in Dogu'a Tembien. In: Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains - The Dogu'a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6.
^ De Deyn, Jonathan (2019). Benefits of reforestation on Carbon storage and water infiltration in the context of climate mitigation in North Ethiopia. Master thesis, Ghent University.
^ ^a ^b Descheemaeker, K. and colleagues (2006). "Sediment deposition and pedogenesis in exclosures in theTigray highlands, Ethiopia". Geoderma. 132 (3–4): 291–314. Bibcode:2006Geode.132..291D. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.04.027.

External links

Link For Forestry Projects

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[fao56-1] Descheemaeker, K. and colleagues (2011). "Two rapid appraisals of FAO-56 crop coefficients for semiarid natural vegetationof the northern Ethiopian highlands". Journal of Arid Environments. 75 (4): 353–359. Bibcode:2011JArEn..75..353D. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.12.002.

[runoff-2] Descheemaeker, K. and colleagues (2006). "Runoff on slopes with restoring vegetation: A case study from the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia". Journal of Hydrology. 331 (1–2): 219–241. Bibcode:2006JHyd..331..219D. doi:10.1016/j.still.2006.07.011. hdl:1854/LU-378900.

[3] Jacob, M. and colleagues (2019). Exclosures as Primary Option for Reforestation in Dogu'a Tembien. In: Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains - The Dogu'a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6.

[jona-4] De Deyn, Jonathan (2019). Benefits of reforestation on Carbon storage and water infiltration in the context of climate mitigation in North Ethiopia. Master thesis, Ghent University.

[pedogenesis-5] Descheemaeker, K. and colleagues (2006). "Sediment deposition and pedogenesis in exclosures in theTigray highlands, Ethiopia". Geoderma. 132 (3–4): 291–314. Bibcode:2006Geode.132..291D. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.04.027.

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