Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Residential Rangelands
The Residential Rangelands anthrome has two key features; its
population density is never below 10 persons/km
and a substantial portion of its area is used for pasture. No
other land use or land cover is as dominant as pasture in
rangelands. Bare earth is significant in this anthrome the
median being nearly 1/3 of the land for every one square kilometer
area.
This anthrome finds a decent portion of its area in the African
plains illustrated by the constituent ecoregions. The culture
of central Africa follows that many people within the population
herd animals. Similarly the other ecoregions are found in
areas where the herding of animals is commonplace.
|
Population
|
Global
Total |
Median |
Min |
Max |
|
billion persons (%) |
persons/km2 |
|
Total
|
0.23 (3.6%)
|
27 |
10 |
260 |
|
Non-Urban
|
0.22 (7.1%)
|
23 |
10 |
100 |
|
|
Land Use & Land Cover
|
Global
Total
|
Median |
Min |
Max |
| million km2 (%) |
(cover %) |
|
Total Land Area |
7.3 (5.6%) |
N/A |
|
Urban |
0.0 (0.0%) |
0.0% |
0.0% |
2.0% |
|
Cultivated |
1.2 (7.7%) |
9.0% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Irrigated |
0.12 (4.4%) |
0.0% |
0.0% |
34% |
|
Rice Paddy |
0.04 (2.3%) |
0.0% |
0.0% |
11% |
|
Pasture |
4.5 (16%) |
66% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Tree Cover |
0.48 (1.7%) |
1.6% |
0.0% |
47% |
|
Bare Earth |
2.6 (7.3%) |
29% |
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. |