Fig. 3: Desertification risk and regional drivers.
From: Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification
a Regions experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, desertification. Areas with a significant negative change in vegetation (αFDR = 0.10) are classified “Desertification,” areas where the anthropogenic climate change (ACC: CO2 + Climate Change) and land-use (LU) components are both negative but the change in vegetation is not significant are classified as “LU and ACC.” Areas where the anthropogenic climate change has had a negative effect are classified as “ACC” and areas where land use had a negative impact classified as “LU.” b map of the regional subdivisions used. c The mean per-pixel ΔNDVImax and its drivers broken down by regions shown in b. The error bars show the SD.
