Amazon rainforest generates US $20 billion worth of rainfall each year. The study estimates that, across the tropics, each square meter of forest contributes about 240 to 300 liters of rainfall. Such estimates could support policy discussions on payments for forest protection.
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Nature
Quantifying tropical forest rainfall generation
Communications Earth & Environment - The Brazilian Legal Amazon region delivers rainfall generation worth US$20 ± 7 billion annually, with each meter squared of forest...
A 40-year study of Swiss protective forests found declining stands increased across elevation zones, with drought-related losses now reaching forests up to 2,200 meters as warming erodes the historical protection from drought provided by higher elevations.
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Frontiers
Frontiers | Four decades of drought impacts on Swiss protective forests: a vanishing altitudinal gradient
Swiss protective forests are distributed along a wide altitudinal gradient, where many are already facing the deleterious impacts of repeated drought episode...