Fig. 1. Spatial distributions of paddy rice croplands and its trend from 2000 to 2015 in monsoon Asia.
a The paddy rice map was retrieved from MODIS data with 500 -m resolution in monsoon Asia in 2015. b The spatial pattern of trends in rice paddy area at 5 × 5 km gridcells during 2000–2015. 1–4 Detailed spatial distributions of rice paddies in local regions, labeled in a with orange rectangles. The small and red polygons in a are the samples illustrated in Fig. 3. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.