1 Single year drought impacts on trees and forests Steve D’Eon, R.P.F. Program Forester.
Why cutting trees in east Africa causes drought in the Sahel
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Why cutting trees in east Africa causes drought in the Sahel
And why China is damaging its farming by cutting Indochinese forests
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Global tree prevalence
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Trees and water:A local story…
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Local water buffering
Trees crowns buffer crops from storms, droughts
Trees roots help prevent waterlogging
Crop roots force tree roots deeper, helping shield trees from
droughts
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Water buffering and woody biomass
The lower tree roots in the AF system explain why woody biomass is higher than in pure forests: the trees are less exposed to water stress.
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Trees and water:A global story too.
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Dominant global winds
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van der Ent RJ, Savenije HHG, Schaefli B, Steele Dunne SC, 2010. Origin and fate of ‐atmospheric moisture over continents. Water Resources Research 46, W09525,
E/P
Pfrom Et/P
P: precipitationEt: evapotranspirationE: evaporation
Much of the rain that falls on land evaporated from plants, not from the seas. Example: in the western Sahel, over 60% of rain originally evaporated from east African plants.
In much of the world, most of the water that falls as rain evaporates again through the transpiration of plants, rather than flowing to the sea. That water falls on other lands.
Rain: whence and where to?
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Ellison D, Futter MN, Bishop K, 2011.On the forest cover–water yield debate: from demand- to supply-side thinking. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02589.x
37% 68%58%
30%
40% 41%
46%22%
42%
1) Mackenzie river basin, 2) Mississippi river basin, 3) Amazon river basin, 4) West Afri-ca, 5) Baltics, 6) Tibet, 7) Siberia, 8) GAME (GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment) and 9) Huaihe river basin.
(recalculated from Basilovich et al.)
% of rain derived from plant transpiration
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Sahel rains come from east Africa
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Deforesting indochina will reduce rainfall in
China
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Want to know more?
Ellison D, Futter MN, Bishop K, 2011.On the forest cover–water yield debate: from demand- to supply-side thinking. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02589.x
van der Ent RJ, Savenije HHG, Schaefli B, Steele Dunne SC, 2010. Origin ‐and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents. Water Resources Research 46, W09525,