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Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana

Rapid urbanization has increased demand for sand in the construction industry to meet housing and infrastructure needs of urban population. The Dallung-Kukuo catchment of the White Volta River Basin is a major sand mining site for the construction industry in Tamale and other peri-urban communities....

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Autores principales: Nasare, Latif Iddrisu, Opoku, Stephanie Asabea, Amponsah, Amos, Tom-Dery, Damian, Asante, William J., Baatuuwie, Bernard N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10407034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37560694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18428
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author Nasare, Latif Iddrisu
Opoku, Stephanie Asabea
Amponsah, Amos
Tom-Dery, Damian
Asante, William J.
Baatuuwie, Bernard N.
author_facet Nasare, Latif Iddrisu
Opoku, Stephanie Asabea
Amponsah, Amos
Tom-Dery, Damian
Asante, William J.
Baatuuwie, Bernard N.
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description Rapid urbanization has increased demand for sand in the construction industry to meet housing and infrastructure needs of urban population. The Dallung-Kukuo catchment of the White Volta River Basin is a major sand mining site for the construction industry in Tamale and other peri-urban communities. On the contrary, the river serves as a major source of water supply to the population. Riparian vegetation is essential to water protection, but research has focused extensively on the impact of sand mining on water quality in the river basin. The present study employed GIS and remote sensing techniques coupled with in-situ vegetation sampling to assess riparian land cover changes from 1990 to 2021. Land cover images of the catchment revealed a 14.9% increase in sand mining area, while river bed area and woodland cover decreased by 0.7% and 20%, respectively, from 1990 to 2021. A comparison of woody plant diversity also showed a higher Shannon diversity index in the unmined area of the riparian zone (3.0) compared to the sand mining area (2.0). Environmental Protection Agency and traditional authorities should intensify monitoring to protect the White Volta basin from unsustainable exploitation.
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spelling pubmed-104070342023-08-09 Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana Nasare, Latif Iddrisu Opoku, Stephanie Asabea Amponsah, Amos Tom-Dery, Damian Asante, William J. Baatuuwie, Bernard N. Heliyon Research Article Rapid urbanization has increased demand for sand in the construction industry to meet housing and infrastructure needs of urban population. The Dallung-Kukuo catchment of the White Volta River Basin is a major sand mining site for the construction industry in Tamale and other peri-urban communities. On the contrary, the river serves as a major source of water supply to the population. Riparian vegetation is essential to water protection, but research has focused extensively on the impact of sand mining on water quality in the river basin. The present study employed GIS and remote sensing techniques coupled with in-situ vegetation sampling to assess riparian land cover changes from 1990 to 2021. Land cover images of the catchment revealed a 14.9% increase in sand mining area, while river bed area and woodland cover decreased by 0.7% and 20%, respectively, from 1990 to 2021. A comparison of woody plant diversity also showed a higher Shannon diversity index in the unmined area of the riparian zone (3.0) compared to the sand mining area (2.0). Environmental Protection Agency and traditional authorities should intensify monitoring to protect the White Volta basin from unsustainable exploitation. Elsevier 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10407034/ /pubmed/37560694 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18428 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Nasare, Latif Iddrisu
Opoku, Stephanie Asabea
Amponsah, Amos
Tom-Dery, Damian
Asante, William J.
Baatuuwie, Bernard N.
Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana
title Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana
title_full Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana
title_fullStr Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana
title_short Effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in Dallung-Kukou catchment of the White Volta basin, Ghana
title_sort effect of sand mining on riparian landcover transformation in dallung-kukou catchment of the white volta basin, ghana
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10407034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37560694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18428
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