Figure 6: Effect of heterogeneity on the stability of the vegetation–rainfall system.
From: Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks
Frequency distribution of cascade sizes with increasing heterogeneity of the forest resilience thresholds based on 1,000 realizations of the cascade model. Note that with increasing heterogeneity (σ), the frequency of high-order cascades (cascade size=4) decreases and the frequency of low-order cascades (cascade size=2) increases.
