8  Ecohydrology

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• Forests sustain the hydrologic cycle through evapotranspiration, which cools climate through feedbacks with clouds and precipitation
• Tropical forests:
  • “Observations show that forest transpiration is sustained during the dry season (11); this is seen also in CO2 fluxes (12) and satellite monitoring of vegetation (13, 14), to a greater extent than represented in many models.” (Bonan 2008)
• Material from trial lecture: lecture_et_giub.key
• Geographic patterns of evapotranspira- tion are explained by Budyko’s analysis of the control of evapotranspiration by net radiation and precipitation.
• 3.4 Hydrologic Cycle (Bonan)