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Global patterns of drought recovery.
Article in Nature, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- A role for vegetation phenology in shaping patterns of ecosystem sensitivity to drought.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Water Availability and Hydraulic Strategies Control Leaf Thermoregulation and Damage During Heat Stress and Recovery in Temperate Tree Species.Plant, cell & environment · 2026Article
- Driving mechanisms of drought triggers in response to vegetation loss across the Weihe River Basin.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Disentangling exogenous and endogenous memory in global vegetation productivity: dominant role and future strengthening of vegetation carryover effects.Carbon balance and management · 2026Article
- Asymmetric temperature responses to soil moisture drought legacies under anthropogenic forcing.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Widespread controls of precipitation sensitivity on drought recovery of global forests.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- A meta-analysis of ant-mediated effects on soil carbon cycling and organic matter stability.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- A Global Comparison of Direct and Legacy Effects of Drought on Ecosystem Productivity.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- No legacy effects of severe drought on carbon and water fluxes in a Mediterranean oak forest.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Impact of emerging compound droughts on forests: A water supply and demand perspective.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Review
- Resistance of vegetation sensitivity to climate and human activities under short-term drought in subtropical humid region: a case study of Guangdong, China.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Responses of stable vegetation to drought accumulation timescales and time lags in the Weihe River Basin.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Variational Characteristics of Vegetation Recovery Period Under Extreme Drought Across Various Land Cover Types in Guizhou Province, China.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Nonlinear response of vegetation productivity to climate change and human activities in a water-source basin: implications for environmental health and water security.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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19 authors at 15 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Drought, a recurring phenomenon with major impacts on both human and natural systems, is the most widespread climatic extreme that negatively affects the land carbon sink. Although twentieth-century trends in drought regimes are ambiguous, across many regions more frequent and severe droughts are expected in the twenty-first century. Recovery time-how long an ecosystem requires to revert to its pre-drought functional state-is a critical metric of drought impact. Yet the factors influencing drought recovery and its spatiotemporal patterns at the global scale are largely unknown. Here we analyse three independent datasets of gross primary productivity and show that, across diverse ecosystems, drought recovery times are strongly associated with climate and carbon cycle dynamics, with biodiversity and CO
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