Browsing by Author "Dube, Hlengiwe"

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    Understanding the influence of land cover change and landscape pattern change on evapotranspiration variations in Gwayi catchment of Zimbabwe
    (Taylor and Francis Group, 2022) Gwate, Onalenna; Dube, Hlengiwe; Dube, Timothy
    Understanding dynamics in hydrological processes helps toimprove water resource management. Climate and land coverchanges influence ecohydrological processes. This study soughtto assess the influence of climate, land cover and landscape struc-ture dynamics on actual evapotranspiration (ETa). To achieve this,the catchment parameter (w) was parameterised and the relation-ship between ETa and selected landscape metrics was deter-mined. The ratio of precipitation to potential evapotranspirationwas<1 and thewwas<2, suggesting that land cover changeswere more influential to ETa changes than climate variations.Given the loww(1