Fig. 3: Relation of fraction of forest cover loss (ΔFCL) with changes in temperature and cloud base height in montane forests in Africa. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Relation of fraction of forest cover loss (ΔFCL) with changes in temperature and cloud base height in montane forests in Africa.

From: Deforestation amplifies climate change effects on warming and cloud level rise in African montane forests

Fig. 3

Panel a deforestation-induced daytime maximum land surface temperature change (ΔLST) with ΔFCL, b maximum air temperature change (ΔTmax) with ΔFCL, and c cloud base height change (ΔCBH) with ΔFCL. The line shows a cubic spline regression fit with a 95% confidence interval using a generalized additive model (GAM) for ΔLST vs. FCL (R2 = 0.97; deviance explained = 98%), ΔTmax vs. FCL (R2 = 0.74; deviance explained = 77%; P < 0.001), and ΔCBH vs. FCL (R2 = 0.77; deviance explained = 80%). Elevation (m a.s.l.) is fitted using GAM for the corresponding FCL in a–c.

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