Science

Synopses

BioIntegrity’s shorts:

• The Five Layers of FMC: 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)

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) 

Key Researchers 

• Anastassia Makarieva (BioticRegulation.ru)
• David Ellison (papers)
• Patrick Keys (papers)  ​

More studies on Google Docs.