Extended Data Fig. 3: Boreal forests with high tree cover experienced extensive resilience declines. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extended Data Fig. 3: Boreal forests with high tree cover experienced extensive resilience declines.

From: Warming and disturbances affect Arctic-boreal vegetation resilience across northwestern North America

Extended Data Fig. 3

(a) Land cover across the ABoVE core domain in 2000. (b) Tree cover fraction across the ABoVE core domain in 2003 from MODIS/Terra Vegetation Continuous Fields Yearly L3 Global 250 m SIN Grid (MOD44B v006). The year 2003 instead of 2000 is used for better data quality as MODIS/Terra began broadcasting data in April 2000. (c) Tree cover across pixels where vegetation resilience significantly increased (R + ), decreased (R-), or did not show a significant trend (R-NS) during 2000–2019. The green dots indicate mean values, and the error bars indicate standard deviations of tree cover across pixels showing R+ (n = 22,090,216), R-NS (n = 3,469,461), and R- (n = 14,079,533). (d) The relative frequency of reduced and enhanced resilience across pixels with tree cover binned at 1% increments, with blue and red lines showing R+ and R-, respectively.

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