Fig 1.
Location map of six selected lacustrine fringe wetlands in Lake Tana.
The study area of six selected LFWs in Lake Tana and three sampling sites in each selected wetlands using Ethiopian shape file, which includes Lake Tana, Major Rivers fed Lake Tana, Dembia Floodplain, and Fogera Floodplain.
Table 1.
Hydrology, water and soil parameters among three impact categories of wetlands, including less impacted wetlands, river mouth influenced wetlands, and highly impacted lacustrine wetlands during low water level.
Table 2.
Hydrology, water and soil parameters among three impact categories of wetlands, including less impacted wetlands, river mouth influenced wetlands, and highly impacted lacustrine wetlands during high water level.
Table 3.
Classification of sites into different levels of wetland condition based on Overall Wetland Condition Index scores in the study wetlands.
Table 4.
Number of wetland sampling sites and percentage share of IWCI in each wetland condition categories.
Fig 2.
Ranking of Low water level and high water level periods of IWCI using DEFINITE Software.
(a) Ranks of Low water level and high water level periods of IWCI using Normal Bar Charts, (b) Contributions of each four sub-indices in each two periods of IWCI, and (c) Total scores of each Low water level and high water level periods of IWCI using various perspectives on group weights.
Table 5.
Comparison of the present IWCI with some previously developed wetland condition index across their locations, metrics/sub-indices methods of ISA and overall WCI development.