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Plants water the planet

Greening of the planet has increased global surface water availability, but vegetation changes can have diverse local and remote impacts across different regions.

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Fig. 1: The effects of leaf area on water availability, defined as precipitation (P) minus evapotranspiration (E).

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Staal, A. Plants water the planet. Nat. Geosci. 15, 958–959 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01086-y

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