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. 2021 May 21;8:136. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z

Table 1.

Definitions for the land use category.

Land use category Definition
Primary Relatively undisturbed natural habitat
Secondary Recovering, previously disturbed natural habitat
Pasture Land used for the grazing of livestock
Production - Arable Land used for crop production (e.g., wheat, rice, corn)
Production - Plantations crops Land used for plantations crops (e.g., coffee, vineyards, oil palm)
Production – Wood plantations Land used for timber production (e.g., teak)
Urban Land converted to dense urban settlement
Unknown If the land use is not given or is not clear

The land use classification was based on the Land-use Harmonization dataset30,31, to map to the original classification system, ‘Production – Wood plantations’ and ‘Production – Plantation crops’ would be ‘Secondary’ and ‘Production – Arable’ would be ‘Cropland’.