Scaled mean vegetation structural attributes for the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology’s Ecosystem Functional Groups in NE Brazil. Axes show the percentage for that structural vegetation group of the maximum data point for each vegetation attribute. The vegetation attributes were (clockwise from top) aboveground woody biomass, canopy height (height), mean Leaf area index (LAI) in the dry season, mean Leaf area index (LAI) in the wet season, burn count (burn), aboveground woody biomass heterogeneity (bio.cv) and NDVI seasonality (seas). Scrubby caatinga, heterogeneous caatinga and hyper-seasonal caatinga are placed in the Non-pyric shrublands group (blue). Arboreal caatinga and transition caatinga are placed in T1.2 Tropical-subtropical Dry Forests EFG (red) and the cerrado and rain forest structural groups in T4.2 Pyric tussock savannas (yellow) and T1.1 Tropical-subtropical Lowland rain forests (green) EFGs, respectively.