Fig. 3: Relative importance of multiple factors controlling trends in ESI based on SHAP values.
From: Ecosystems in China have become more sensitive to changes in water demand since 2001

a Output of the random forest (RF) model. b Output of the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model. Abbreviations of influencing factors please see Methods. Changes of variables refer to the Kendall’s tau coefficient.