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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6353-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6353-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Data description paper
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24 Nov 2025
Data description paper |
| 24 Nov 2025
| 24 Nov 2025
HIStory of LAND transformation by humans in South America (HISLAND-SA): annual and 1 km gridded data for soybean, maize, wheat, and rice (1950–2020)
Binyuan Xu
Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability (CES), Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430000, China
Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability (CES), Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Shufen Pan
Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability (CES), Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Department of Engineering, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Xiaoyong Li
Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability (CES), Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
School of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China
National Key Laboratory of Smart Farm Technologies and Systems, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150006, China
Óscar Melo
Centro de Cambio Global UC, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 7820436 Santiago, Chile
Anne McDonald
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Sophia University, 102-8554 Tokyo, Japan
María de los Ángeles Picone
Department of History, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Xiao-Peng Song
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Edson Severnini
Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability (CES), Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Katharine G. Young
Boston College Law School, Boston, MA 02459, USA
Feng Zhao
Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management – Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Data sets
HISLAND-SA: Annual and 1-km crop-specific gridded data in South America from 1950 to 2020 Binyuan Xu et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14002960
Short summary
This study reconstructed the spatial and temporal patterns of four major crops (soybean, maize, wheat, and rice) in South America from 1950 to 2020 by integrating multiple data sources. The results reveal a significant expansion in cropland, particularly for soybean, leading to a substantial reduction in natural vegetation such as forests and grasslands. The datasets can be used to assess the impacts of cropland expansion on water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles in South America.
This study reconstructed the spatial and temporal patterns of four major crops (soybean, maize,...
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