Abstract
Potential natural vegetation (PNV) explicitly refers to a definite point in time, i.e., today’s PNV is likely to be different from the PNV of any point in time in the past, in which abiotic environment shaping human impact is regarded as part of the forces that have formed the environment. Lack of consensus on the definition of PNV, methods, the spatial scales used, and other variables to be considered lead to inconsistent and hardly reproducible PNV maps. Thirteen PNV are described in Ethiopia. However, due to their small coverage and overlap with other PNV types, some of them are difficult to map.
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Yaynemsa, K.G. (2022). The Concept of Potential Natural Vegetation (PNV). In: Plant Biodiversity Conservation in Ethiopia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20225-4_3
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