Increases in vegetation cover were particularly significant in the desert/xeric shrublands biome in northern Mexico and northeast Brazil.

A central innovation here is the breakdown of data by vegetation zone. Tropical rainforests are, unsurprisingly, shown to be among the most species-rich areas on earth.

The most intact biomes included tundras, boreal and taiga forests, deserts and xeric shrublands, and the countries boasting the highest levels of intact land were Russia, Canada, Brazil, and ...

This map shows the global distribution of study sites in different biomes. Streams were located in tundra, temperate broadleaf forest, temperate coniferous forest, Mediterranean forest, xeric ...