Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 April 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01352-2

The authors demonstrate that a vegetation system’s ability to recover from disturbances—its resilience—can be estimated from its natural variability. Global patterns of resilience loss and gains since the early 1990s reveal shifts towards widespread resilience loss since the early 2000s.