Modelling potential habitat suitability of three invasive alien plant species under the projected climate scenarios and land use/land cover change in the Lake Zone of Tanzania

Preprint ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e192024 (18 Mar 2026) https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e192024 (18 Mar 2026) Submitted to One Ecosystem Other versions: - Preprint InfoPreprint Info - CiteCite - MetricsMetrics - CommentComment - RelatedRelated - CitedCited ARPHA Preprints doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e192024 First posted 18 Mar 2026 Authors Neema Mtenga - Corresponding author University of Münster, Department of Geoscience, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Münster, Germany Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania Research Group Applied Landscape Ecology and Ecological Planning" and "Remote Sensing and Spatial Modelling Research Group, Münster, Germany University of Münster, Department of Geoscience, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Münster, Germany Conflict of interest The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Supporting agencies This work was funded by the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD) and the Institute of Landscape Ecology (ILÖK This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.