Fig. 6From: Temporal dynamics of ecosystem, inherent, and underlying water use efficiencies of forests, grasslands, and croplands and their responses to climate changeNormalized coefficients from the partial least squares regression between annual changes in EWUE, IWUE, uWUE and annual changes in Ca and meteorological variables for a all vegetation types (All), b DBFs, c ENFs, d GRAs and e CROs. The marks above or below the bars indicate the significance of the regression: + indicates p < 0.1, * indicates p < 0.05, ** indicates p < 0.01, and *** indicates p < 0.001. And the relative importance of Ca and meteorological variables in controlling EWUE, IWUE and uWUE in f all vegetation types (All), g DBFs, h ENFs, i GRAs and j CROs. The size of the circles represents the percentage of the variance that the dependent variable is explained by each independent variable, and the intensity of the color represents its importanceBack to article page