Gardening: No sweat! Learn about ‘evapotranspiration’

Proper irrigation is very important for plant health. Too much or too little can both be damaging to plants.

China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle

China’s planted a bunch of new trees since 1981, but that extra foliage is shifting more precipitation to some areas while ...
JSTOR Daily

Foliar temperature as a tool for quantifying whole-plant transpiration in tree seedlings under laboratory and greenhouse conditions

A proper mechanistic understanding of how whole-tree transpiration varies as a function of environmental conditions is essential for predicting how vegetation will respond to climate change, ...
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Satellite remote sensing model for wide-area prediction of transpiration rates in Japanese cypress plantations

Tsukuba, Japan—Forests, known as nature's "green dams," play a crucial role in replenishing Earth's groundwater reserves. However, overcrowding in planted forests due to lack of maintenance activities ...