Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Populated Rainfed Cropland
Populated Rainfed Cropland is dominated by big agriculture and
charictarized by a small human population which is very similar to
that of populated irrigated cropland anthromes though with far less
irrigated land. However this is the first anthrome in which we
find no urban land area and thus non-urban population density is the
total population density, which of course is very sparse.
Though within the top five constituent ecoregions there is no
dominance of any one region, we do find a marked change from
forested ecoregions to those dominated by grasses and shrubs which
lend themselves to easy conversion to agriculture especially where
irrigation is limited or unnecessary. Much of this anthrome is
large scale agriculture and agribusiness.
|
Population
|
Global
Total |
Median |
Min |
Max |
|
billion persons (%) |
persons/km² |
|
Total
|
0.04 (0.6%)
|
7 |
1 |
10 |
|
Non-Urban
|
0.04 (1.3%)
|
7 |
1 |
10 |
|
|
Land Use & Land Cover
|
Global
Total
|
Median |
Min |
Max |
| million km2 (%) |
(cover %) |
|
Total Land Area |
6.5 (5%) |
N/A |
|
Urban |
0.0 (0.0%) |
30.2% |
17.6% |
100% |
|
Cultivated |
2.2 (15%) |
7.7% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Irrigated |
0.05 (1.8%) |
0.8% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Rice Paddy |
0.01 (0.6%) |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Pasture |
1.4 (5.0%) |
0.5% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Tree Cover |
1.3 (4.6%) |
6.9% |
0.0% |
57.3% |
|
Bare Earth |
0.4 (1.1%) |
6.0% |
0.0% |
100% |
|