Delphine Clara Zemp

TL;DR: The results suggest that frequent extreme drought events have the potential to destabilize large parts of the Amazon forest, and the risk of self-amplified forest loss is reduced with increasing heterogeneity in the response of forest patches to reduced rainfall.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the importance of cascading moisture recycling (CMR), which describes moisture transport between two locations on the continent that involves re-evaporation cycles along the way, and find the eastern side of the sub-tropical Andes to be a key region where CMR pathways are channeled.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors calculate local forest transpiration and the subsequent trajectories of transpired water through the atmosphere in high spatial and temporal detail, and estimate that one-third of Amazon rainfall originates within its own basin, of which two-thirds has been transpired.

TL;DR: Findings from TreeDivNet indicate that tree diversity experiments are extending BEF research across systems and scales, complementing previous BEF work in grasslands by providing opportunities to use remote sensing and spectral approaches to study BEF dynamics, integrate belowground and aboveground approaches, and trace the consequences of tree physiology for ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors track observation-based water fluxes from sources (evapotranspiration) to sinks (rainfall) to assess the effect of deforestation on continental rainfall and show that deforestation can reduce dry season rainfall by up to 20% far from the deforested area.