Extended Data Fig. 6: Biomes are slightly unevenly exposed to novel conditions.
From: Widespread ecological novelty across the terrestrial biosphere
a, scaled total novelty exposure, equally weighted between climate change, defaunation and floristic disruption. b, the contribution of each individual novelty process to the total novelty varies between biomes. Biomes are taken from Fischer et al87 abbreviated as follows (with the number of 10×10 km cells in each biome in parentheses); TrEF, Tropical evergreen forest (n = 1,115,644); TrRF, Tropical raingreen forest (n = 994,819); SAV, Savanna (n = 406,931); TrGL, Tropical grassland (n = 328,622); WTW, Warm temperate woodland (n = 184,160); DES, Desert (n = 1,107,836); TBF, Temperate broadleaf evergreen forest (n = 562,133); SDES, Semi-desert (n = 350,957); TeSL, Temperate shrubland (n = 971,411); TeNF, Temperate needleleaf evergreen forest (n = 31,691); STE, Steppe (n = 134,741); TePL, Temperate Parkland (n = 266,201); TeSF, Temperate summergreen forest (n = 266,201); TeMF, Temperate mixed forest (n = 276,547); BPL, Boreal Parkland (n = 476,718); TUN, Tundra (n = 62,559); BSBF, Boreal summergreen broadleaf forest (n = 237,111); BEF, Boreal evergreen needleleaf forest (n = 653,171); BSNF, Boreal summergreen needleleaf forest (32,594); STUN, Shrub tundra (n = 445,889); BWL, Boreal woodland (291,822). Novelty drivers in b are left-to-right ordered as in the legend In the box plots the central line represents the median, the upper and lower box limits represent the first and third quartiles respectively. Whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range. Pairwise effect sizes are available as Supplemental Tables 5-8.
