Land cover and vegetation types

Agriculture

Type Description
Agricultural land Cropped land, fallow land and grassland (excluding extensive grassland)
Extensive grassland Land covered by grass with potential productivity of less than 25% of world maximum for grassland
Biofuel Land cropped for biofuels

Managed forest land and regrowing vegetation

Type Description
Carbon plantation Lands planted with wood species used for biofuel production or C sequestration
Regrowing vegetation (abandoning) Abandoned agricultural land that reverts back to its natural vegetation
Regrowing vegetation (timber) Vegetation harvested for timber or fuelwood production that reverts back to its natural vegetation type
Wood plantations Planted forests where management is optimized for efficient wood production with shorter rotation cycles.

Natural vegetation

Tundra Temperate deciduous forest Savanna
Wooded tundra Warm mixed forest Tropical woodland
Boreal forest Grassland and steppe Tropical forest
Cool coniferous forest Hot desert Other types
Temperate mixed forest Scrubland Ice

Areas not shown on land cover maps of graphs

Built-up areas Urban and built-up areas (fractions of grid-cells covered by built-up areas are excluded from being used for agricultural practices).
Bioreserves Protected nature reserves, national parks and monuments occurring within the above natural vegetation types; these areas are excluded for being used as managed forest or agriculture.

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