Extended Data Fig. 5: Changes in drought sensitivity in undisturbed regions.

(a) The distribution of undisturbed regions in 1982–2018. (b) The trend of sensitivity (k) in undisturbed regions, where the trend was derived using an eight-year moving window, with k calculated for each window. The trend of sensitivity (Trend of k) is the slope of sensitivity vs year. (c) The mean trend of sensitivity for the land-cover types (left to right, N=258, 99, 2344, 228, 980), where the asterisks indicate significance (p = 0.002 and 0.003, respectively, two-sided) based on the GLS model. The error bars are standard errors. Multiple comparisons are not applicable. (d) The distribution of the trend of sensitivity (Trend of k) in climate space (mean annual temperature (MAT) vs mean annual precipitation (MAP)).