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Anthropogenic Biomes, Land-Use Systems
Erle EllisErle EllisDepartment of Geography & Environmental Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
German-US ConferenceTough Choices - Land Use under a Changing ClimateTough Choices - Land Use under a Changing Climate
Berlin, Germany October 2, 2008
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Trends in Agriculture & Global Climate Change
• Agricultural Change and Global Climate Change
• Anthropogenic Biomes & Land Use Systems– What is Agriculture?– Rangelands, Croplands & Villages
• Measuring & modeling global changes in multi-functional agricultural mosaics
Overview
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Cropland and Pasture 2000Ramankutty, 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.
15 million km2
12% of ice free land
28 million km2
22% of ice free land
Pasture
Cropland
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Ramankutty, N., J. A. Foley, and N. J. Olejniczak. 2002. People on the land: Changes in global population and croplands during the 20th century. AMBIO 31:251-257.
Changes in Cropland Area: 1960 - 1990
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Land clearing: tropics (plantations, crops)Land abandoned: Americas, China, Eastern EuropeReturn to production (recent grain prices): USA
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Hazell, P. and S. Wood. 2008. Drivers of change in global agriculture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363:495-515.
Agriculture Intensifies: 1960 - 2000Changes in Management
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Agriculture and Global Climate Change• Agricultural Change
• Changes in Areas: Extent and Landscape structure• Changes in Management Practices: e.g. irrigation…
• Agriculture is a cause of global climate change– Biophysical: surface heat balance, aerosols
– Biogeochemistry: carbon balance, greenhouse gases
• Agriculture is impacted by global climate change
– Altered environments for crops and livestock– Adaptation by managers
• Management: irrigation practices, varieties…• Extent and landscape structure: land abandonment,
new irrigation systems, land clearing …
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Ramankutty, N., J. A. Foley, J. Norman, and K. McSweeney. 2002. The global distribution of cultivable lands: current patterns and sensitivity to possible climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11:377-392.
Climate Change and Suitability for Crops
Colder regions get better Drier regions get worse
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“Agriculture is embedded in Anthropogenic Biomes”
What is agriculture?• The cropped/grazed part of
landscapes• Agroecosystems• Part of land use systems• Part of multifunctional landscape
mosaics• Part of human systems• Part of Anthropogenic Biomes
(Anthromes)
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Anthromes: global patterns of sustained human interaction with the biosphere.
Anthropogenic Biomesa new framework for ecology and earth science in the 21st century
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Population density (urban, rural)
Croplands
Pastures
Irrigation
Rice
Tree & bare cover(Vegetation Continuous Fields)
ClusterAnalysis
Anthropogenic Biomes
Anthropogenic Biomes: An Empirical Approach
Ellis & Ramankutty, 2008
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Wildlands 61 Wild forests
62 Sparse trees
63 Barren
Forested 51 Populated forests
52 Remote forests
Rangelands 41 Residential
42 Populated
43 Remote
Croplands 31 Residential irrigated
32 Residential rainfed mosaic
33 Populated irrigated
34 Populated rainfed
35 Remote
Anthropogenic Biomes of the World (v1)
*Mosaic: >25% tree cover mixed with > 25% pasture and/or cropland*
Ellis & Ramankutty, 2008
Urban & dense settlements 11 Urban12 Dense settlements
Villages 21 Rice
22 Irrigated23 Cropped & pastoral24 Pastoral
25 Rainfed26 Rainfed mosaic
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16% global cropland
ResidentialPopulatedRemote
Ellis & Ramankutty, 2008
Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Rangelands
40 million km2
Grazing land, minimal crops and forests
0.3 billion people6% global tree cover
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CroplandsAtlas Mountains, Morocco
Remote RangelandsSouth Dakota, USA
Credit: © Alexander Smart. <http://ars.sdstate.edu/faculty/smarta/Range415/Image035.jpg>
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Populated RangelandsAtlas Mountains, Morocco
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Ellis & Ramankutty, 2008
Residential irrigated Populated rainfed
Remote
Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Croplands
27 million km2
Crops mixed with other land uses
0.9 billion people25% global tree cover
Residential rainfed mosaicPopulated irrigated
53% global cropland
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Remote CroplandsColombia Basin, Washington, USA
Credit: © GWMA <http://www.gwma.org/images/CroplandAdjusted.jpg>
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Croplands - Residential Rainfed MosaicNormandy, France
Credit: © JH.Bernard. <http://pagesperso-orange.fr/rmc14/images/IMAGES-RMC/RMC-6.JPG>
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Anthropogenic Biomes of the World
Ellis & Ramankutty, 2008
Villages
8 million km2
Densely populated agriculture rural population >100 person km-2
2.6 billion people4% global tree cover
RiceIrrigatedCropped & pastoral
PastoralRainfedRainfed mosaic
24% global cropland
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Rainfed Mosaic Villages Jintang County, Sichuan Province, China
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Rice VillagesDanyang County, Jiangsu Province, China
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Anthropogenic Biomes
Globally
People 80% in urban and village anthromes
Land 22% wild biomes, 78% anthropogenic biomes
NPP 11% wild biomes, 89% anthropogenic biomes
32% in Croplands biomes
33% Forested biomes
CropsVillages 24% + 50% in populated croplands (>1 person
km-2)
Most irrigation and rice is in villages
>25% global tree cover is embedded in Croplands
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UrbanDensely settled
rice
irrigated
irrigated crops & pasture
pastoralrainfed
rainfed mosaic
residential irrigated
residential rainfed mosaic
populated rainfed
populated irrigatedremote
ResidentialPopulated
RemotePopulated forests
Remote forestsWildlands
Rangelands
Global
pasture rainfedirrigated
herbbare
< treesVillages
Croplands
Land use (%)Land cover (%)
CultivatedAnthromes
8 million km2 24% global cropland
27 million km2 53% global cropland
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Anthropogenic Biomes are Multifunctional Land Mosaics
– Mixtures of different land uses and land covers.
– Urban areas are embedded in agricultural areas.
– Croplands are mixed with trees and housing.
– Managed vegetation is mixed with semi-natural vegetation (e.g. croplands in rangelands and forests).
– Hillslopes & mountains are often islands of semi-natural vegetation
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© Erle C. Ellis, 2005
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Jintang 500m Sample Cell
R05_C12Landsat (28.5m)
© Erle C. Ellis, 2005
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Jintang 500m Sample Cell
R05_C12IKONOS
© Erle C. Ellis, 2005
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2001IKONOS
1 km2 Sample
Tropical Hilly Region
DIANBAI
October 27, 2001
Ellis et al., 2006
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1945Aerial
1 km2 Sample
Tropical Hilly Region
DIANBAI
May 14, 1944
Ellis et al., 2006
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COVERChange
1945 - 2001
-7 - -3
-3 - -1
0
1 - 3
4 - 7
- RegenerationVegetation
+ Denudation
1 km2 Sample
Tropical Hilly Region
DIANBAI
Ellis et al., 2006
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Brodie, P. 1990. Crescent over Cathay: China and ICI, 1898 to 1956. Oxford University Press, New York.
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chem fertilizer appl picture
© Erle C. Ellis, 2002
~25% of Global N Fertilizer Use
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household survey
© Erle C. Ellis, 2005
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Agricultural Mosaics and Climate Change
Challenges• Observing global changes in agricultural
mosaics• Modeling interactions between climate
and management (adaptation & feedbacks)
A way forward….• Global Sampling, Measurement and
Modeling of Agricultural Landscape Processes
http://ecotope.org