Anthromes (Anthropogenic Biomes, or “human biomes”) represent the global ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems.
Anthropogenic biomes, also known as anthromes or human biomes, describe the terrestrial biosphere in its contemporary, human-altered form using global ecosystem units defined by global patterns of sustained direct human interaction with ecosystems.
Anthromes were first named and mapped by Erle Ellis and Navin Ramankutty in their 2008 paper, “Putting People in the Map: Anthropogenic Biomes of the World”. Anthrome maps now appear in numerous textbooks and in the National Geographic World Atlas