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Han Chen's team's results highlight the complex linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem function, and climate change in dryland forests.

The team utilized 57 years of inventory data -- spanning from 1958 to 2015 -- of dryland biomes in Canada, finding that climate warming does not adversely affect forests with resource-gaining characteristics.

Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area.

The researchers used satellite data to look for green, vegetated areas within dryland areas, indicating an oasis, and tracked changes over 25 years.

The Carrizo Plain stretches 50 miles between the Temblor and Caliente mountains, a grassy plain and drainage basin where Chumash, Yokuts and other Indigenous peoples hunted and traded before settlers tried their hand at dryland farming.