Phys.org  October 10, 2024 Rapid warming and increasing disturbances in high-latitude regions have caused extensive vegetation shifts and uncertainty in future carbon budgets. Better predictions of vegetation dynamics and functions require characterizing resilience, which indicates the capability of an ecosystem to recover from perturbations. A team of researchers in the US (The Ohio State University, University of Utah, Northern Arizona University) used temporal autocorrelation of remotely sensed greenness to quantify time-varying vegetation resilience during 2000–2019 across northwestern North American Arctic-boreal ecosystems. They found that vegetation resilience significantly decreased in southern boreal forests, including forests showing greening trends, while it increased […]