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Changing Global Land Use

55% of the Earth’s ice-free land is used for human agriculture and settlements.

Data

Ellis et al. 1

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References

  1. Ellis, Erle C, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stefan Siebert, Deborah Lightman, and Navin Ramankutty, ‘Anthropogenic Transformation of the Biomes, 1700 to 2000’, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19.5 (2010), 589–606 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00540.x [↩]

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