Which Came First – The Rain or the Rainforest?

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Produced by: Minute Earth
Year: 2013
Language: English
Region: Global

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Boyce, C.K. et al. 2010. Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3417…
Boyce, C.K. and Lee, J.-E. 2010. An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or…
Lee, J.‐E., and Boyce, C.K. 2010. Impact of the hydraulic capacity of plants on water and carbon fluxes in tropical South America. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…
Lewis, S.L. et al. 2011. The 2010 Amazon Drought. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331…
Malhi, Y. et al. 2008. Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon.http://www.sciencemag.org/content/319…
Marengo, J.A. et al. 2008. The Drought of Amazonia in 2005. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/1…
Nepstad, D. et al. 1999. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire.http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/…
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Nickl, et al. 2010. Changes in Annual Land-Surface Precipitation Over the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10…

IMAGE SOURCES
Land Surface Temperature
Image by: Reto Stockli, NASA’s Earth Observatory Team
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Deforestation
Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA
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