Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Rainfed Mosaic Villages
High rainfall characterizes the Rainfed Mosiac Village anthrome
which incorporates nearly equal parts non-irrigated agriculture,
forest, and residential areas. The term mosaic is used to describe
this highly heterogeneous anthrome which has the highest median net
primary production of any village anthrome. A wide mix of land
cover allow the the moderate population to exploit the landscape of
this anthrome in many ways leaving it quite fragmented.
Rainfed Mosaic Village is the only village anthrome that finds its top
five constituent ecoregions on three continents and is not at all
dominated by land in Asia. In this way its characteristic
heterogeneity almost seems fractal in nature.
|
Population
|
Global
Total |
Median |
Min |
Max |
|
billion persons (%) |
persons/km² |
|
Total
|
0.5 (7.8%)
|
192 |
100 |
2001 |
|
Non-Urban
|
0.34 (11%)
|
145 |
100 |
494 |
|
|
Land Use & Land Cover
|
Global
Total
|
Median |
Min |
Max |
| million km2 (%) |
(cover %) |
|
Total Land Area |
2.2 (1.7%) |
N/A |
|
Urban |
0.03 (5.7%) |
1.0% |
0.0% |
11% |
|
Cultivated |
0.45 (3.0%) |
16% |
0.0% |
100% |
|
Irrigated |
0.1 (3.3%) |
0.0% |
0.0% |
75% |
|
Rice Paddy |
0.07 (4.0%) |
0.0% |
0.0% |
55% |
|
Pasture |
0.19 (0.7%) |
3.5% |
0.0% |
66% |
|
Tree Cover |
0.65 (2.3%) |
27% |
0.0% |
77% |
|
Bare Earth |
0.03 (0.1%) |
0.3% |
0.0% |
18% |
*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. |