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Trees, forests and water: cool insights for a hot world

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Ellison, David, Morris, Cindy E., Locatelli, Bruno, Sheil, Douglas, Cohen, Jane, Murdiyarso, Daniel, Gutierrez, Victoria, Noordwijk, Meine van +14 more·2017·Global Environmental Change
DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.002
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Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use and water management. This constrains humanity’s ability to protect our planet’s climate and life-sustaining functions. The substantial body of research we review reveals that forest, water and energy interactions provide the foundations for carbon storage, for cooling terrestrial surfaces and for distributing water resources. Forests and trees must be recognized as prime regulators within the water, energy and carbon cycles. If these functions are ignored, planners will be unable to assess, adapt to or mitigate the impacts of changing land cover and climate. Our call to action targets a reversal of paradigms, from a carbon-centric model to one that treats the hydrologic and climate-cooling effects of trees and forests as the first order of priority. For reasons of sustainability, carbon storage must remain a secondary, though valuable, by-product. The effects of tree cover on climate at local, regional and continental scales offer benefits that demand wider recognition. The forest- and tree-centered research insights we review and analyze provide a knowledge-base for improving plans, policies and actions. Our understanding of how trees and forests influence water, energy and carbon cycles has important implications, both for the structure of planning, management and governance institutions, as well as for how trees and forests might be used to improve sustainability, adaptation and mitigation efforts.

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  • Forests have evapotranspiration rates that are high compared to other ecosystems and thereby recycle rainfall back into the atmosphere where it becomes available to form clouds and new rainfall.

    “Forests have evapotranspiration rates that are high compared to other ecosystems and thereby recycle rainfall back into the atmosphere where it becomes available to form clouds and forms new rainfall (Ellison et al 2017).”

    From The impact of deforestation on rainfall in Africa: a data-driven assessment (2021) · cites this paper as Ellison et al 2017

    Section 2 says forest evapotranspiration supplies atmospheric moisture for precipitation and discusses its role in cloud formation and rainfall. It compares rainfall after air passes over forests versus sparse vegetation, but does not establish that forests have higher evapotranspiration rates than other ecosystems. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Forests play an important role in maintaining rainfall patterns worldwide by recycling water back to the atmosphere through evapotranspiration.

    “Forests play an important role in maintaining rainfall patterns worldwide by recycling water back to the atmosphere through evapotranspiration.”

    From The impact of deforestation on rainfall in Africa: a data-driven assessment (2021) · cites this paper as Ellison et al 2017

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Ellison, D., Morris, C. E., Locatelli, B., Sheil, D., Cohen, J., Murdiyarso, D., Gutierrez, V., Noordwijk, M. V., Creed, I. F., Pokorny, J., Gaveau, D., Spracklen, D. V., Tobella, A. B., Ilstedt, U., Teuling, A. J., Gebrehiwot, S. G., Sands, D. C., Muys, B., Verbist, B., Springgay, E., Sugandi, Y., & Sullivan, C. A.
Affiliations
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
  • Montana State University (US)
  • Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
  • Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NO)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
  • IPB University (ID)
  • World Agroforestry Centre (KE)
  • Western University (CA)
  • Center for International Forestry Research (ID)
  • University of Leeds (GB)
  • Wageningen University & Research (NL)
  • Uppsala University (SE)
  • KU Leuven (BE)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IT)
  • Southern Cross University (AU)
Corresponding author
Ellison, David
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Global Environmental Change
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-03
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43
Pages
51-61
ISSN
0959-3780 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.002
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W2586819609
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1,249
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Funders
  • KU Leuven
  • Belgisch Ontwikkelingsagentschap
  • Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad
  • Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers
  • VLIRUOS
  • Australian Research Council (LP130100498)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Keywords
forests, trees, water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, global cooling, land cover change, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, water management, land use policy, carbon storage, sustainability

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