Definitions | Acronyms

### Land cover and vegetation types

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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.

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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

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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.