Fig. 16

Cumulative distributions of the rate of change in litter carbon at the ecological subregion scale. Model results are shown as squares, and plot measurements as circles. Results are shown in terms of Mg ha⁻¹ year⁻¹ (A) and as % change per year in litter depth for FIA and litter carbon for the model (B). Each point in the cumulative distribution is colored by ecological subregion such that if the order of ecological subregions from most negative to most positive change was the same in both datasets, the colors would match for each y value. The fact that most points with negative changes are in green for both datasets in (A) shows that most (but not all) of the ecological subregion’s changes have the same direction of change for both datasets