Gwate, OnalennaDube, HlengiweDube, Timothy2023-06-152023-06-152022Gwate, O. et al. (2022). Understanding the influence of land cover change and landscape pattern change on evapotranspiration variations in Gwayi catchment of Zimbabwe. Geocarto International, 37(25), 10016–10032. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2022.20323861752-0762https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2022.2032386http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9097Understanding 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<w<2), we conclude that the catchment hada low water retention capacity and was sensitive to land coverchanges.enEcohydrologyEcologyEnvironmental changeWater securityZimbabweArticle