Science
Key Articles
By journalists:
- Trees in the Amazon Make Their Own Rain (Loomis, 2017)
- Trees in the Amazon Make Their Own Rain (McKenna, 2017)
- Trees and Forests Recycle Water, Cool the World (Ouya, 2017)
- How Deforestation is Affecting Global Water Cycles (Pearce, 2018)
- Linking Trees and Water (Evans, 2017)
- How Vegetation Alters the Climate (Evarts, 2017)
- Vegetation Controls the Future of the Water Cycle (Columbia University School of Engineering, 2018)
Key Studies
Peer-reviewed research:
- Biotic Pump of atmospheric moisture as driver of the hydrological cycle on land (Makarieva, Gorshkov, 2007)
- Biogenic Potassium Salt Particles as Seeds for Secondary Organic Aerosol in the Amazon (Pöhkler, et al, 2012)
- Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration (Jasechko, et al, 2013)
- Rainforest-initiated wet season onset over the southern Amazon (Wright, et al, 2017)
- Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world (Ellison, et al, 2017)
- Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover (Duvelier, et al, 2021)
- Vegetation as the catalyst for water circulation on global terrestrial ecosystem (Chen, et al, 2023)
- Even cooler insights: The power of forests to water the Earth and cool the planet (Ellison, et al, 2024)
- More studies on Google Docs.
Key Researchers
- Anastassia Makarieva (BioticRegulation.ru)
- David Ellison (papers)
- Patrick Keys (papers)
Synopses
- Forest Moisture Circulation (Searles)
- Biospheric Moisture Circulation (Searles)
- Rainmaking with Trees (Searles)
- Strategic Watering (Searles)
- Securing Forests (Searles)
- Rainfall Deficit (Purdue University)
- Vegetation = Circulation (Searles)
- Bio-Precipitation (de Laat)