Global vegetation resilience linked to water availability and variability.

ABSTRACT: Quantifying the resilience of vegetated ecosystems is key to constraining both present-day and future global impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Here we apply both empirical and theoretical resilience metrics to remotely-sensed vegetation data in order to examine the role of water availability and variability in controlling vegetation resilience at the global scale. We find a concise global relationship where vegetation resilience is greater in regions with higher water availability. We also reveal that resilience is lower in regions with more pronounced inter-annual precipitation variability, but find less concise relationships between vegetation resilience and intra-annual precipitation variability. Our results thus imply that the resilience of vegetation responds differently to wat

SUBMITTER: Smith T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9886942 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature