Study reference, location of study, subjects' age, study setting, climate, latitude, longitude, study start and end date period of data for each times series used in analysis.

*Climate categories: A - moist tropical climates, B - arid and semiarid climates, C - humid mid-latitude areas, D - colder temperate areas.**The duration in parenthesis indicates that the monthly aggregated average values were used for this study.***Remote sensing data source: GIMMS – Global Inventory Monitoring and Mapping Studies, MODIS – NASA's Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.