ISSN : 2663-2187

Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Livestock Dynamics and Vegetation Cover Transformation in the Algerian Steppe, Diachronic Analysis

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IMELHAYENE Meriem, SAIDJ Dahia , HADBAOUI Ilyes, SENOUSSI Abdelhakim, ADAMOU Abdelkader, SAAD ahmed
ยป doi: 10.48047/AFJBS.6.15.2024.11840-11860

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This study aims to highlight the importance of livestock dynamics and the evolution of the vegetation index in recent years, as well as to present the relationship between these two dynamics in the Algerian steppe in light of a new vision in the use of geographic information systems in the treatment of environmental and agricultural development in animal production. The Algerian steppe, with its unique characteristics of the bio-climatological factors, natural resources as a specific vegetal cover and animal species wealth, economic activities, cultural backgrounds, and practices, has deteriorated in recent years from total and/or partial denaturation of vegetation and pastoral spaces. This denaturation was caused in the first place by biological factors associated with economic breeding activities and affected the sustainable development of the steppe area. To propose an efficient strategy to provide the natural ecosystem of the steppe area, vegetation cover balance, and the maintenance of food security by livestock and the sustainable development of the communities, many study scenes were created by using spatiotemporal monitoring of the evolution of natural resources using LANDSAT satellite images and the Q GIS dataset. Using remote sensing and geographic information system (SIG) data, his changes during 2017-2021 may be detected using knowledge of vegetation and livestock distribution dynamics. The areas with the highest concentration of livestock herd possess a low vegetation index, indicating a significant correlation between the intensity of the vegetal cover denaturation and the growing dynamics of livestock herd.

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