Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Residential Irrigated Cropland
Residential Irrigated Cropland is the cropland anthrome with the
highest population density. Irrigation is a common practice
despite the high median annual precipitation which helps to support
half of this anthrome which cultivates at least 36% of its land.
This heterogeneous anthrome incorporates a small amount of pasture,
forest, and urban area with vast swaths of agriculture.
Three of the top five constituent ecoregions are tropical broadleaf
forests though they exist in such small percentages of the whole anthrome they are likely of little significance.
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on one's perspective, great
areas of the residential irrigated cropland have been clear cut and
converted to large scale agriculture and pasture to support the
local and regional populations. |
Population
|
Global
Total |
Median |
Min |
Max |
|
billion persons (%) |
persons/km² |
|
Total
|
0.27 (4.2%)
|
80 |
10 |
3288 |
|
Non-Urban
|
0.14 (4.5%)
|
62 |
10 |
100 |
|
|
Land Use & Land Cover
|
Global
Total
|
Median |
Min |
Max |
| million km2 (%) |
(cover %) |
|
Total Land Area |
2.39 (1.8%) |
N/A |
|
Urban |
0.03 (5.7%) |
0.0% |
0.0% |
17% |
|
Cultivated |
0.97 (6.5%) |
37% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Irrigated |
0.48 (18%) |
12% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Rice Paddy |
0.24 (14%) |
0.8% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Pasture |
0.4 (1.4%) |
6.6% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Tree Cover |
0.44 (1.6%) |
11% |
0.0% |
78% |
|
Bare Earth |
0.29 (0.8%) |
2.0% |
0.0% |
100% |
*Median,
Minimum and Maximum estimates were
calculated after removing the top and bottom
2% of cells in each anthrome based on
the Euclidean distance across the means of variables used for anthrome classification. |