Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends
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Abstract Climate change is expected to impact the functioning of the entire Earth system. However, detecting changes in ecosystem dynamics and attributing such change to anthropogenic climate change has proved difficult. Here we analyse the vegetation dynamics of 100 sites representative of the diversity of terrestrial ecosystem types using remote-sensing data spanning the past 40 years and a dynamic model of plant growth, forced by climate reanalysis data. We detect a change in vegetation activity for all ecosystem types and find these changes can be attributed to trends in climate-system parameters. Ecosystems in dry and warm locations responded primarily to changes in soil moisture, whereas ecosystems in…
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- Ecosystem
- Terrestrial ecosystem
- Climate change
- Environmental science
- Vegetation (pathology)
- Ecology
- Physical geography
- Climatology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Climate action
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