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ScienceDaily: In 2011, satellite images of the African savannas revealed a mystery: these rolling grasslands, with their heavy rainfalls and spells of drought, were home to significantly fewer trees than researchers had expected. Scientists supposed that the ecosystem's high annual precipitation would result in greater tree growth. Yet a 2011 study found that the more instances of heavy rainfall a savanna received, the fewer trees it had. To this ecological riddle, Princeton University researchers might have......
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More rain leads to fewer trees in the African savanna
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 19th, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation