Anthromes 12K

Anthropogenic Biomes: 10,000 BCE to 2015 CE How have humans transformed the biosphere over the past 12,000 years? Anthromes (Anthropogenic Biomes) represent the globally significant patterns of Earth’s ecology created and sustained by human populations and their use of land, including urban, village, cropland, rangeland and seminatural anthromes, together with wildlands without evidence of human populations or land use. These anthrome maps illustrate human transformation and use of the terrestrial biosphere over the past 12,000 years at 73 time points between 10,000 BCE and 2015 CE. These maps were produced by classifying HYDE 3.2 data for population and land use, which can be downloaded here: https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-25g-gez3 Please cite: Ellis, E.C., A.H.W. Beusen, and K. Klein Goldewijk. 2020. Anthropogenic biomes: 10,000 BCE to 2015 CE Land 9 (5):129. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9050129

Anthromes 12K DGG

Anthropogenic Biomes from 10,000 BCE to 2017 CE (Discrete Global Grid format) How have humans transformed the biosphere over the past 12,000 years? Anthromes (Anthropogenic Biomes) represent the globally significant patterns of Earth’s ecology created and sustained by human populations and their use of land, including Intensive anthromes (dense settlements, villages, croplands, and rangelands), Cultured anthromes (low intensity use woodlands and drylands), and Wildlands without evidence of human populations or land use. These maps illustrate human cultural transformation and use of the terrestrial biosphere over the past 12,000 years at 60 time points between 10,000 BCE and 2017 CE, at the scale of regional landscapes (~100 km2), using a Discrete Global Grid system (DGG) that divides Earth’s land into 1,429,024 equal area hexagons. Please Cite Ellis, E.C., N. Gauthier, K.K. Goldewijk, R.B. Bird, N. Boivin, S. Díaz, D.Q. Fuller, J.L. Gill, J.O. Kaplan, N. Kingston, H. Locke, C.N.H. McMichael, D. Ranco, T.C. Rick, M.R. Shaw, L. Stephens, J.-C. Svenning, and J.E.M. Watson. 2021. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: (in press).

Anthromes 12K DGG Highlights

Anthropogenic Biomes from 10,000 BCE to 2017 CE (Discrete Global Grid format) How have humans transformed the biosphere over the past 12,000 years? Anthromes (Anthropogenic Biomes) represent the globally significant patterns of Earth’s ecology created and sustained by human populations and their use of land, including Intensive anthromes (dense settlements, villages, croplands, and rangelands), Cultured anthromes (low intensity use woodlands and drylands), and Wildlands without evidence of human populations or land use. These maps illustrate human cultural transformation and use of the terrestrial biosphere over the past 12,000 years at 60 time points between 10,000 BCE and 2017 CE, at the scale of regional landscapes (~100 km2), using a Discrete Global Grid system (DGG) that divides Earth’s land into 1,429,024 equal area hexagons. Please Cite Ellis, E.C., N. Gauthier, K.K. Goldewijk, R.B. Bird, N. Boivin, S. Díaz, D.Q. Fuller, J.L. Gill, J.O. Kaplan, N. Kingston, H. Locke, C.N.H. McMichael, D. Ranco, T.C. Rick, M.R. Shaw, L. Stephens, J.-C. Svenning, and J.E.M. Watson. 2021. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: (in press).

Cascadia Web Portal

The Cascadia Partner Forum is a conservation partnership among dozens of state, federal, and local governmental agencies, First Nations, and NGO's in Washington and southern British Columbia.

Cascadia Web Portal (no cache)

The Cascadia Partner Forum is a conservation partnership among dozens of state, federal, and local governmental agencies, First Nations, and NGO's in Washington and southern British Columbia.

Ecoregions

https://ecoregions2017.appspot.com as an Earth Engine app.

Ecoregions DGG

Ecoregions (featureview)

https://ecoregions2017.appspot.com as an Earth Engine app.

Ecoregions (no cache)

https://ecoregions2017.appspot.com as an Earth Engine app.

Global Safety Net

A ‘Global Safety Net’ To Reverse Biodiversity Loss and Stabilize the Earth’s Climate Global strategies to halt the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are often formulated separately, even though they are interdependent and risk failure if pursued in isolation. The Global Safety Net (GSN) offers a spatially explicit pathway in which nature conservation addresses both overarching threats. We identify 53.4% of the terrestrial realm that, if protected, would reverse further biodiversity loss, enhance natural carbon removal, and prevent CO2 emissions associated with land-use change beyond 2030. This framework shows that, in addition to the 15.0% land area currently protected, 38.4% of land area is needed to conserve biodiversity, stabilize the climate, and connect intact habitats. The GSN aligns with a recent climate model that shows nature-based solutions are essential to maintain a chance of staying below the 1.5˚C limit in average global temperature rise. Fifty ecoregions and 21 countries contribute disproportionately to proposed targets. Indigenous lands overlap extensively with the GSN. Authors Eric Dinerstein, Anup Joshi, Carly Vynne, Andy T.L. Lee, Sanjiv Fernando, Tanya Birch, Manno França, Félix Pharand-Deschênes, Karl Burkart, Gregory P. Asner, David Olson, Neil Burgess.

Global Safety Net Demo

A ‘Global Safety Net’ To Reverse Biodiversity Loss and Stabilize the Earth’s Climate Global strategies to halt the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are often formulated separately, even though they are interdependent and risk failure if pursued in isolation. The Global Safety Net (GSN) offers a spatially explicit pathway in which nature conservation addresses both overarching threats. We identify 53.4% of the terrestrial realm that, if protected, would reverse further biodiversity loss, enhance natural carbon removal, and prevent CO2 emissions associated with land-use change beyond 2030. This framework shows that, in addition to the 15.0% land area currently protected, 38.4% of land area is needed to conserve biodiversity, stabilize the climate, and connect intact habitats. The GSN aligns with a recent climate model that shows nature-based solutions are essential to maintain a chance of staying below the 1.5˚C limit in average global temperature rise. Fifty ecoregions and 21 countries contribute disproportionately to proposed targets. Indigenous lands overlap extensively with the GSN. Authors Eric Dinerstein, Anup Joshi, Carly Vynne, Andy T.L. Lee, Sanjiv Fernando, Tanya Birch, Manno França, Félix Pharand-Deschênes, Karl Burkart, Gregory P. Asner, David Olson, Neil Burgess.

MethaneSAT

Three Conditions Mapping Project

Three Global Conditions Mapping Project (V4) Locke et. al. 2019 (in preparation); analysis by Erle C. Ellis (ece@umbc.edu) May 30, 2019

Three Conditions Mapping Project (no cache)

Three Global Conditions Mapping Project (V4) Locke et. al. 2019 (in preparation); analysis by Erle C. Ellis (ece@umbc.edu) May 30, 2019