Fig. 1: Temporal patterns of vegetation dynamics and resilience across 2000–2020 and between decade 2000–2010 and 2011–2020.
From: Vegetation resilience does not increase consistently with greening in China’s Loess Plateau
a Temporal trajectories of vegetation dynamics and resilience. Continuous lines refer to the regional mean kNDVI (green) and AR(1) (orange), and shaded areas represent the corresponding 95% confidence interval magnified by a factor of 10 for visual purposes. For comparison, the kNDVI values are calculated as the mean using the same 5-year sliding window as AR(1). Note that the mean kNDVI and AR(1) values are plotted at the end of each sliding window. b and c Histogram of grid-level Kendall τ values for the kNDVI and AR(1) time series, respectively, comparing data for the first decade (2000–2010) and the second (2011–2020). d–f Cumulative density distribution of the relationship between kNDVI Kendall τ and AR(1) Kendall τ at the grid scale from 2000–2020 (d), 2000–2010 (e), and 2011–2020 (f). Number labels in four quadrants represent the percentage of pixels of a certain quadrant. Grid cells with non-significant Kendall τ (P > 0.05) were not included in the figures for visual purposes.
