Extended Data Fig. 2: Water balance shift as a function of burn severity, landcover type, and drought severity from different landcover products. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extended Data Fig. 2: Water balance shift as a function of burn severity, landcover type, and drought severity from different landcover products.

From: Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States

Extended Data Fig. 2: Water balance shift as a function of burn severity, landcover type, and drought severity from different landcover products.

(a) Spread in water balance shift obtained using six landcover products – GLC, NLCD, ESA WorldCover, MODIS IGBP, ESA CCI, and LANDFIRE (with least stringent threshold of 10% for tree, shrub, and herbaceous cover) characterized with burn severity, (b) water balance shift characterized by landcover type. (c) Scatter plot between normalized water-balance shift index (NWSI) and annual SPEI-90 for fire events during 2016 to 2018, characterized by burn severity, based on LANDFIRE combinations of various thresholds over tree (T), shrub (S), and herbaceous (G) percent covers. Darker colors refer to more stringent constraint on the vegetation covers.

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