Monitoring vegetation dynamics and ecosystem service provision in semi-arid Bobirwa sub-district of Botswana using MODIS-NDVI time series data from 2000-2015

Our study uses freely available, remotely-sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data and participatory processes to examine the links between vegetation dynamics and recent changes in the delivery of key ecosystem services in the semi-arid Bobirwa subdistrict in the Limpopo Basin, Botswana. The results show that degradation in the study area is provoked by both human activity and adverse climate with pronounced consequences on the delivery of key local ecosystem services.