A global analysis of post-fire vegetation productivity recovery reveals that the recovery time shows spatial variations across vegetation types and regions. The dominant factors that influence the recovery time in the majority of the global burned area are the post-fire climate conditions, such as soil moisture, vapour pressure deficit and air temperature.
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This is a summary of: Xu, H. et al. Global patterns and drivers of post-fire vegetation productivity recovery. Nat. Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01520-3 (2024).
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Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers. Nat. Geosci. 17, 831–832 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01521-2
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