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Annual time-series 1 km maps of crop area and types in the conterminous US (CropAT-US): cropping diversity changes during 1850–2021
Shuchao Ye
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 5011, USA
Peiyu Cao
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 5011, USA
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 5011, USA
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We reconstructed annual cropland density and crop type maps, including nine major crop types (corn, soybean, winter wheat, spring wheat, durum wheat, cotton, sorghum, barley, and rice), from 1850 to 2021 at 1 km × 1 km resolution. We found that the US total crop acreage has increased by 118 × 106 ha (118 Mha), mainly driven by corn (30 Mha) and soybean (35 Mha). Additionally, the US cropping diversity experienced an increase in the 1850s–1960s, followed by a decline over the past 6 decades.
We reconstructed annual cropland density and crop type maps, including nine major crop types...
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