Gridded Livestock of the World
This dataset provides the global geographic distribution of key livestock species—cattle, sheep, and goats—for the year 2010, sourced from the Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW 3) database. Expressed as the total number of animals per pixel at a spatial resolution of 5 minutes of arc, these layers are essential for diverse applications in agricultural socio-economics, food security, environmental impact assessments, and epidemiology.
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Gilbert, M., Nicolas, G., Cinardi, G., Van Boeckel, T. P., Vanwambeke, S. O., Wint, G. R. W., & Robinson, T. P. (2018). Global distribution data for cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and ducks in 2010. Scientific Data, 5, Article 180227. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.227
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