Effects of long-term deforestation and remnant forests on rainfall and temperature in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Forest Ecosystems

Table 4 Trends in annual maximum and minimum temperatures on the rift valley floor and in the escarpments/highlands

Landscape unit	Meteorological Station	Tmax		Tmin
Landscape unit	Meteorological Station	Trend (°C/decade)	P	Trend (°C/decade)	P
Escarpments/highlands	Assela	0.33	0.216	0.34	0.095
	Kulumsa	0.00	1.000	−0.52	0.032*
	Butajira	0.20	0.013*	−1.25	0.004*
Unit		0.19	0.0307*	−0.4	0.0523
Valley floor	Ziway	0.44	0.000*	0.22	0.275
	Langano	1.20	0.001*	1.00	0.011*
	Adami Tulu	0.56	0.000*	0.03	0.866
Unit		0.63	0.0000*	0.2	0.0447*
Central Rift Valley		0.4	0.000*	0.00	0.96