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. 2022 Mar 29;13:1653. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29009-w

Fig. 2. The comparison on impacts of soil moisture (SM) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) on ecosystem light use efficiency (LUE) based on measurements of eddy covariance sites and global model data.

Fig. 2

a Differences between ΔLUE(SM|VPD) and ΔLUE(VPD|SM) at 40 eddy covariance sites. b Differences between ΔLUE(SM|VPD) and ΔLUE(VPD|SM) based on FLUXCOM dataset. The positive values indicate larger impacts of VPD relative to SM in a, b. Note, where ΔLUE(SM|VPD)>0, the difference equals to ΔLUE(VPD|SM) in a, b; where ΔLUE(VPD|SM)>0, the difference is ΔLUE(SM|VPD); and where both are positive, the difference is not shown. For better comparability in space, the LUE data time series was normalized by the average LUE exceeding 90th percentile. The units refer to the fractions relative to average LUE exceeding the 90th percentile for each eddy covariance site and each grid cell.