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Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends
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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 cooler locations responded primarily to changes in temperature. We find that the effects of CO 2 fertilization on vegetation are limited, potentially due to masking by other environmental drivers. Observed trend switching is widespread and dominated by shifts from greening to browning, suggesting many of the ecosystems studied are accumulating less carbon. Our study reveals a clear fingerprint of climate change in the change exhibited by terrestrial ecosystems over recent decades.
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- Authors
- Higgins, S. I., Conradi, T., & Muhoko, E.
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2023-02
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 147-153
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W4319311840
- Cited by
- 259
- References
- 49
- FWCI
- 40.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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