ArticleNature communications2025
Flash droughts exacerbate global vegetation loss and delay recovery.
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- Effects of drought duration on terpene profiles, physiological responses, and terpene-related gene expression in rosemary.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Remote sensing analysis of forest fire impacts on ecosystem productivity, greenhouse gas emissions, and fire risk in Pakistan.Carbon balance and management · 2026Article
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The increasing incidence of flash droughts globally presents a great challenge to the agriculture sector, ecosystem resilience and water resource systems. Here we introduce a methodology that improves the accuracy of quantifying drought-induced global vegetation loss (using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)-derived metric). Our results reveal that NDVI loss during flash droughts (9.0%) is approximately 1.5 times higher than that during conventional droughts (5.3%), highlighting the increasing role of flash droughts as the key driver of drought-induced NDVI loss worldwide. Furthermore, we identify a significant upward trend (1.8% per decade) in global NDVI loss due to flash droughts, primarily driven by the increasing frequency of such events, which account for 81.2% of the overall trend. Although NDVI typically recovers within 36 pentads across more than 9256.3 × 10
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