Anthrome Map of the Upper Peninsula, MI

Visualizing a series of land-use change in the Upper Peninsula.

Overview

The assignment for this exploration was to investigate how human activities have turned the biome of this region into an anthrome (i.e., anthropogenic biome). Another portion of this assignment dealt with creating a climate profile for the region. Data were downloaded from Anthromes 12K DGG Datasets. Figure production was completed in RStudio with several packages including ggplot, ggspatial, and tidyverse. Here is the resulting map that I ended up with for my assignment. The upper portion shows the current (ca. 2017) land-use by humans and the lower part steps through a series over the last 270 years.

Final Result

Credit: Benjamin Tjepkes

Credit: Benjamin Tjepkes