Fig. 7: Vegetation contrasting states found along the transect. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 7: Vegetation contrasting states found along the transect.

From: Expert elicitation of state shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems

Fig. 7

Along the latitudinal transect, vegetation ranges from very sparse and low polar desert vegetation to dense and tall, closed canopy boreal forest vegetation. Vegetation contrasting states are defined by the dominant structural characteristics of vegetation cover, namely height and growth form (herbs, forbs, shrubs, coniferous and deciduous trees), found on a landscape (30 × 30 km) characterized by a flat terrain (see Supplementary Note 1 for definitions).

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