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After further research, I am replacing Permanent Vineyard and Arable Crop Field with Permanent and Arable “Garden”. Also, while it is still a WIP, here is where I am at.

Farm: An area of land dedicated to growing consumables and/or domesticated animals.

Plantation: A large Farm dedicated to one specific crop.

Ranch: An area of land dedicated to raising livestock or game.

Arable Land: Cropland that requires yearly replanting. (Example: Root Vegetables)

Permanent Cropland: Cropland that can be re-harvested without replanting. (Example: Fruit Trees)

Rangeland/Pasture: Places for grazing livestock. Rangelands have primarily native vegetation and pastures are more intentionally grown with seeding, irrigation, and fertilizer.

Aquaculture: Farm for aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants.

Deepwater Cropland: Aquatic or Semiaquatic cropland where the water is more than 50 cm (20 in) deep for at least a month.

(Non-Earth nomenclature) Nectar Farm: Agricultural land where nectar or nectar based products, like honey, is collected. In the case of the latter, if the creature that produces the product qualifies as livestock, it would be a Ranch (note: Earth Bees do not meet the definition of “livestock”). Edit: It turns out Bees, as well as Poultry, are “Microlivestock”, so perhaps having a seperate category is unnecessary. Though I would not use the prefix “Micro”. I suggest broadening the definition of Livestock to include smaller creatures, poultry, and aquatic creatures (which are not considered livestock or microlivestock on earth).

Cluster of Settlements and Agricultural Land (Huge)

  • (Density Subtype) (Specialization Subtype) (Size Subtype) Settlements (Large)
    • Residential Area (Medium)
      • Residential Building (Could be Medium, Small, or Tiny)
        • Wall (Interior)
        • (Use Subtype) Room
    • Market (Medium) (Could be one (medium) building, a group of small buildings, or a large group of tiny stalls)
    • Dump (Medium)
    • Ship Yard (Medium or Small)
  • Mine (Large or Medium?)
  • Farmland (Large)
    • Arable Land Plantation (Medium)
      (Subtypes)
      • Arable Forest (Tree that gets cut down to harvest. Also called Timber Farms)
      • Arable Crop Shrubland (I am not familiar with any earth examples of this)
      • Arable Garden (example: root vegetables, cotton, arable vine crops (tomatoes, squash, peas), and tobacco)
      • Arable Grassland (On earth: most cereal grains)
    • Permanent Cropland Plantation (Medium)
      (Subtypes)
      • Permanent Crop Forest (Trees which are not cut down to harvest, such as Fruit and/or Nut Trees, Coffee, and Palm Oil. Also called Orchards)
      • Perennial Crop Shrubland (Pineapple?)
      • Permanent Garden (Perennial Vegetables (asparagus, artichoke, rhubarb) and Vines (grapes, black peppers, kiwifruit))
      • Perennial Grassland (On earth, some types of Rice and Sugarcane)
    • Arable Aquaculture
      (Subtypes)
      • Micro Algal Farm (example: Plankton farm (this is apparently more popular than macro algal farming))
      • Aquatic Deepwater Arable Cropland (I am not sure if earth Deepwater Rice is Arable or Permanent)
      • Semiaquatic Arable Grassland (Flooded Arable) (Some Rice)
      • Arable Aquatic Garden (example: Lotus Flowers)
    • Permanent Aquaculture
      (Subtypes)
      • Algal Crop Forest (example: Kelp Farm)
      • Aquatic Deepwater Permanent Cropland (See Deepwater Arable note)
      • Semiaquatic Permanent Grassland (I am not familiar with any earth examples of this)
      • Semiaquatic Permanent Garden (example: Taro)
    • Non Cropland Farm (Medium)
      (Subtypes)
      • Terrestrial Ranch(Livestock or Game)
      • Aquatic Ranch (Freshwater or Marine)
      • Nectar Farm (Earth example: Bee Farm: (for Honey), could also be to farm the nectar directly from the flower)
  • Range/Pasture (Large)

(WIP) Polyculture

  • Grassland/Aquatic Creature/Water Foul Systems (examples: numerous types of rice polyculture)
  • Algal Forest/Aquatic Creature Combo
  • Crop/Livestock Combo (example: some Family Farms)
  • Forest/Garden Combo (several crops grow better in the shade provided by permanent trees)
  • Grassland/Garden Combo (example: Maize, Beans, and Squash in a three field rotation)

Artificial Freshwater Biomes

  • Rivers
    • Canals
      • Waterways
      • Aqueducts
      • Subterranean Waterways
      • Subterranean Aqueducts
    • Freshwater Pipes
    • Sewage System
      • Industrial Sewer
      • Sanitary Sewers
      • Storm Drain
      • Combined Sewage System
    • Industrial Waste River See Pollution below
  • Lake
    • Reservoir
    • Subterranean Reservoir
    • Flooded Mines

Artificial Cave-like System

  • Underground Mine
  • Subway
  • Catacombs
  • Utility Tunnels
  • (Other Tunnel Network)

(Power Subtype) (Use Subtype) Boat (Could be Large, Medium, Small, or Tiny)

Artificial Shoreline (I am still researching this one)

Destroyed and Abandoned Areas

  • Abandoned Excavation Site
    • Open Pit Mine
    • Strip Mine
    • Mountaintop Removal Mine
  • Abandoned Deforested Forest
  • Abandoned Settlement
  • Submerged Structure
    • Boat
    • Settlement
  • Landfill
  • (Edit) Desertificated Land?

Polluted (Biome Name)

  • Industrial Waste
  • Irradiated
  • Oil Covered
  • (Pollution Subtype)
  • (Pollution Subtype)
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