Fig. 2: Global alternatives of natural vegetation cover.

This map depicts the natural alternatives of vegetation cover on a global scale as for 2015, based on the changes in fire regime (prescribed or excluded) and herbivore intensity scenarios. Each pixel of the map represents the standard deviation (SD) of the predictions for bare ground (BG), tree (T), and short vegetation (SV) cover. The resulting additive color rendering corresponds to pixels where alternatives are found between two dominant land cover types (cyan for trees and short vegetation, magenta for short vegetation and bare ground, and in yellow for trees and bare ground). A Venn diagram summarizes this color legend. The color gradient highlights large contrasts and should be interpreted with caution detailed information for visualization at the pixel level is available here: https://bastinjf-climate.users.earthengine.app/view/gavcglobalalternativescenarios.