The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

This quantity is a single measurement of the quantity at a given point in time (2015).


Value:		≈ 1.17 × 10¹³ kg / yr see this value in other units This is equivalent to... ≈ 1.17 × 10¹⁰ tonnes / yr ≈ 11.7 Pg / yr
HuID:		19415
Relevant Year(s):		2015
Summary:		The estimated mass of sediment production via accelerated erosion due to agriculture. This value represents the mass of sediment produced solely through enhanced water erosion by conversion of natural vegetation to crops. Wind erosion is not assessed in this estimate.
Method:		This value results from a spatially-distributed erosion model sampled via Monte Carlo methods. Data comes from 14 different studies which report measurements of anthropogenic sediment from catchment basis in different locations with different agricultural histories. The reported value is a point estimate of contemporary erosion resulting from a more integrative, time-dependent model.
Source:		Wang, Z., Van Oost, K. Modeling global anthropogenic erosion in the Holocene. The Anthropocene Review (2019)
Dataset:		Reported point estimate of contemporary agricultural erosion (Wang2019_pg377.csv) global resolution
Original Data License:		© The Authors
Added By:		gchure