Fig 1.
Population density in 2015 [43] with cities greater than 5 million inhabitants identified.
Significant changes in precipitation trends between 1981–2013 wettest three months are overlain. Insert shows biogeographic realms from The Ecoregions of the World [44].
Fig 2.
Biodiversity hotspots and Global 200 conservation priority regions with regions of significant wetting and drying overlain.
The four insets show the spatial overlay between biodiversity hotspots and the greatest wetting and drying identified in our analysis: Mesoamerica, Himalaya, the Horn of Africa and the Indo-Malay hotspots.
Fig 3.
Percent area of Biodiversity Hotspots experiencing precipitation change and percent population change experienced in each hotspot.
Fig 4.
Areas that are categorized as rainfed agriculture or rangelands/pastoral, based on Ellis and Ramankutty [35] and where they are drying or wetting.
Inset shows the % area of each type of anthrome that is wetting or drying.
Fig 5.
Significant wet season precipitation change in biomes of the world.
Fig 6.
Area wetting or drying by biome and realm.
Percent of each biome by realm that has experienced significant precipitation change (wetting or drying) is indicated above each bar.