Fig. 3.

Framework for describing ecosystem responses after drought ends. We refer to this as the ‘post‐drought period’. Within this post‐drought period, we propose that the nature of the ecosystem response can be described by a set of terms. The start of the drought refers to either one drought or any subsequent droughts. We propose that the same terms should be used during the post‐drought period regardless of how many drought periods have occurred. Legacy (which includes lag) effects describe either positive or negative effects observed during the post‐drought period. Recovery and resilience are terms that describe neutral effects seen after a certain amount of time following drought.