Anthromes v2 Data

Anthromes The Global Ecological Patterns Created by Humans

Global Spatial Data for Research Use

citation: Ellis, E. C., K. Klein Goldewijk, S. Siebert, D. Lightman, and N. Ramankutty. 2010. Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19(5):589-606. [download]

Data in 5 arc minute global geographic raster grids in .zip files with accompanying metadata. Data are provided in four formats. Anthrome maps are also viewable in Google Maps and Google Earth. Anthromes v1 data are available here.

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Datasets		ESRI Binary GRID*	GeoTIFF	ARC/INFO ASCII GRID	NetCDF Raster
	Anthromes v2.0 (data for 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2000)	<download> (2.2 MB)	<download> (1.7 MB)	<download> (2.6 MB)	<download> (1.9 MB)
	Input Data for Anthromes v2.0 (data for 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2000) Population & Land Use, based on HYDE 3.1 Population density (persons km^-2) % Urban area % Crop area % Pasture area % Irrigated area (GMIA 4.01 + historical data) % Rice area (based on Monfreda et al., 2008)	<download> (47.4 MB)	<available by request>	<available by request>	<available by request>
	Base Data for Anthromes v2.0 Potential Natural Vegetation (Ramankutty & Foley 1999) Land area per 5 arc minute grid cell (km^-2)	<download> (1.2 MB)	<download> (1.0 MB)	<download> (1.1 MB)	<download> (1.1 MB)
*ESRI ARC/INFO Binary GRID is recommended for users of ArcGIS.