Table 1.
Summary of the definitions of each of the terms assessed in this review.
| Term | Definitions | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Legacy effect | Effects of drought after drought has subsided | Griffin‐Nolan et al. (2018) |
| Indirect rather than direct effects of drought | Hicks et al. (2018) | |
| Lasting physiological changes | Kannenberg et al. (2019) | |
| How community responds after drought to rewetting | de Nijs et al. (2019) | |
| Lag or incompleteness in recovery | Huang et al. (2018) | |
| Recovery | Growth reaction following drought period | Gazol et al. (2017) |
| Post‐drought conditions/drought conditions | Vitali et al. (2017) | |
| Well‐watered conditions after drought | Panke‐Buisse et al. (2020) | |
| Time it takes to recover after drought | He et al. (2018) | |
| Resilience | Capacity to recover to pre‐disturbed conditions | Dang et al. (2019) |
| Ability to recover from drought events | Elsalahy et al. (2020) | |
| Post drought conditions/ pre‐drought conditions | Vitali et al. (2017) | |
| Post‐drought recovery rate | Li et al. (2020) | |
| Lag effect | Positive correlations the following year after drought | Zhao et al. (2018) |
| Drought memory | Memory that helps respond to future disturbance | Leufen et al. (2016) |
| Persistent effects of antecedent precipitation on productivity | Liu et al. (2018) | |
| Rewetting | Wet period after drought | Van Sundert et al. (2020) |
| Compounded drought | Effect of old perturbation to new perturbation | Peltier & Ogle (2019) |
| Effects of heatwave and drought at one time | El‐Madany et al. (2020) |
The different definitions for each term are provided with references for papers in which the terms were used and defined. Our goal was to include the general definitions found across the papers and cite the most relevant papers.