Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Rice Villages
Rice Villages are dominated by the cultivation of paddy rice and
usually have
fairly high population density. The majority of the regions
classified as rice villages are in Asia and all of the top five
constituent Olson ecoregions that comprise the rice village anthrome,
which cover nearly 54% of all rice villages are found in India and
China.
Rice Villages are generally wet environments but range in
temperature from temperature to tropical. It follows that a
great deal of the land is cultivated (median 73.1% mostly for rice)
and very little land use goes to pasture (median 0.6%).
Despite the significant rainfall experienced by most rice villages
the land is still heavily irrigated primarily by channeling rain
water to rice paddies.
|
Population
|
Global
Total |
Median |
Min |
Max |
|
billion persons (%) |
persons/km² |
|
Total
|
0.57 (8.9%)
|
697 |
101 |
5537 |
|
Non-Urban
|
0.27 (8.2%)
|
353 |
100 |
1549 |
|
|
Land Use & Land Cover
|
Global
Total
|
Median |
Min |
Max |
| million km2 (%) |
(cover %) |
|
Total Land Area |
0.74 (0.6%) |
N/A |
|
Urban |
0.05 (9.4%) |
6.0% |
0.0% |
17.2% |
|
Cultivated |
0.54 (3.6%) |
73% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Irrigated |
0.3 (10.9%) |
39% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Rice Paddy |
0.3 (17.3%) |
57% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Pasture |
0.0 (0.0%) |
0.6% |
0.0% |
48% |
|
Tree Cover |
0.05 (0.2%) |
4.4% |
0.0% |
61% |
|
Bare Earth |
0.02 (0.1%) |
1.0% |
0.0% |
40% |
*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. |