3) A higher likelihood of a savanna-stable condition in future warming scenarios, driven by an increase in precipitation variability.
4) Positive human intervention could mitigate the warming impacts.
2) Nearly half of India’s landscape exhibits forest-savanna alternative states (unistable savanna), controlled by low (high) precipitation variability and seasonality.
Findings:
1) There is a compositional shift in the tree cover in India. Between 2001 and 2020, India’s tree cover grids declined from 30% to 28%. However, we observed non-climate-driven compositional shifts, with forests increasing from 7.2% to 8.6% and savannas increasing from 9.2% to 11.7%.
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