County-Scale Land Use Changes, 1950 to 2000

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University of Michigan
Daniel G. Brown

This figure appears in the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2007 report.

These products were generated using censuses of population, housing, and agriculture: (top) change in population density; (middle) change in land area settled at “exurban densities” (i.e., 1 house per 1 to 40 acres); and (bottom) change in percentage of cropland. Credit: D.G. Brown, University of Michigan (reproduced from Ecological Applications with permission from the Ecological Society of America).

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