Which Came First - The Rain or the Rainforest?
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REFERENCES
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/...
Nepstad, D. et al. 2001. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
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
http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php...
Deforestation
Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA
http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/...
Amazon Droughts and Forest Fires
Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD......
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This video sponsored by our Subbable supporter Cookie Blast:
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Thanks to Subbable supporter Steve Moyers for helping make MinuteEarth possible!
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Created by Henry Reich
Writing and Editing Team: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert
Animation: Ever Salazar
Music by Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder
Thanks to Seth Riedel for pronunciation advice!
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MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes!
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REFERENCES
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/...
Nepstad, D. et al. 2001. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
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
http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php...
Deforestation
Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA
http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/...
Amazon Droughts and Forest Fires
Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD......
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