EFG T7.2 Sown pastures and fields – current maps

T7. Intensive land-use biome

Published

June 7, 2024

This page provides information about the valid indicative distribution map for the ecosystem functional group T7.2 Sown pastures and fields. For older or alternative maps, see here.

Methods

Here is the methods summary for Map code and version: T7.2.web.map v1.0.

The presence of sown pastures was approximated by selecting areas of overlap between existing irrigation infrastructure (Siebert et al. 2005; 2013) and presence of major livestock (Gilbert et al. 2018).

Datasets

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Processing

Processing steps used in this map are: Thresholds.

Map evaluation

This map is considered to be a Fine quality map based on the following characteristics:

Concept alignment is Indirect,specific.

Ground observations are NA.

The accuracy evaluation Quantitative accuracy assessment,documented,quantitative.

How to use the data

Available files

You can download geospatial data for this map from the following sources:

T7.2.WM.nwx (v1.0): Mapbox tileset

Note that you need to login to some services like mapbox or earthengine, and in some cases you also need to request access to the files.

License information

Indicative maps have been released with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Datasets used to create this map might have some restriction for commercial use, see details below.

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References

References used in this version of the maps.

  • Ramankutty, N., A.T. Evan, C. Monfreda, and J.A. Foley (2008) Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22, GB1003 DOI:10.1029/2007GB002952
  • Gilbert M, G Nicolas, G Cinardi, S Vanwambeke, TP Van Boeckel, GRW Wint, TP Robinson (2018) Global Distribution Data for Cattle, Buffaloes, Horses, Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Chickens and Ducks in 2010 Nature Scientific data 5:180227 DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.227
  • Helmut Haberl, K. Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Veronika Gaube, Alberte Bondeau, Christoph Plutzar, Simone Gingrich, Wolfgang Lucht, Marina Fischer-Kowalski (2007) Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth’s terrestrial ecosystems Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (31) 12942-12947 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0704243104