Changing Global Land Use
55% of the Earth’s ice-free land is used for human agriculture and settlements.
Data
Ellis et al. 1
References
- 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 [↩]