Part I: General Overview of Ethiopian Church Forests.- 1. Understanding Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in and the surroundings of Ethiopian Church Forests.- 2. Estimation and mapping of Asabot Monastery Dry Afromontane Forest Carbon Stock Under Diverse Land Use Scenarios.- 3. Land cover changes and forest fragmentation on the surrounding of selected church forests in Ethiopia.- 4. Sacred Texts and Environmental Ethics: Lessons in Sustainability from Ethiopia.- Part II: Present Role and Future Challenges of Ethiopian Church Forests.- 5. The role of Ethiopian Church Forests for Soil Carbon Sequestration.- 6. Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Pools for Some Selected Native and Introduced Tree Species of Abune Teklehayimanot Church Forest, Welayita Sodo, Southern Ethiopia.- Part III: Structure and Diversity of Ethiopian Church Forests.- 7. Floristic Composition, Diversity and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Four Church Forests in Ethiopia.- 8. Diversity, Regeneration Status and Socio-Economic Importance of Tara Gedam, Abebaye and Fach Forests, Libokemkem District of South Gondar Administrative Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia.- 9. Woody Vegetation Composition and Structure of Church Forests in Southeast of Lake Tana, Northwest Ethiopia.- 10. Woody Species Composition, Diversity, Structure and Uses of Selected Church Forests in the Central Ethiopia.- Part IV: Restoration Options to the Surrounding Landscapes of Ethiopian Church Forests.- 11. Church Forests as Repositories for Forest Reproductive Material of Native Species and their Possible Role as Starting Points for the Restoration of Degraded Areas.- 12. Ecological Status and Plan for Connectivity of Fragmented Forests as a Means of Degraded Land Restoration in South Gonder, Ethiopia.- 13. Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation in Mojo River Watershed of Ethiopia using GIS-Based Erosion Risk Evaluation.- 14. Ethiopian church forests as monitoring towers in reconstructing climate change and its impacts and to make evidence-based climate-smart restoration efforts.- 15. Rehabilitation sites prioritization on base of remote sensing time series, erosion risk and woody biomass modelling.
