Which Came First — the Rain or Rainforests?

Without the forest pumping so much water into the air, rainforests wouldn t be as rainy. And without so much rain, the forest couldn t pump so much water into the air. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Writing and Editing Team: Alex Reich, Henry Reich, Peter Reich & Emily Elert Illustration and Animation: Ever Salazar Music by Nathaniel Schroeder Thanks to Seth Riedel for pronunciation advice! MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info OTHER CREDITS ***************** Land Surface Temperature - Image by: Reto Stockli, NASA s Earth Observatory Team http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MOD11C1_M_LSTDA Deforestation - Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/deforestation.php Amazon Droughts and Forest Fires - Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5930 OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | https://youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | https://twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | https://instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | https://facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | https://minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Boyce, C.K. et al. 2010. Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3417/2009143 Boyce, C.K. and Lee, J.-E. 2010. An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/277/1699/3437.short Lee, J.‐E., and Boyce, C.K. 2010. Impact of the hydraulic capacity of plants on water and carbon fluxes in tropical South America. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010JD014568/full Lewis, S.L. et al. 2011. The 2010 Amazon Drought. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6017/554.short Malhi, Y. et al. 2008. Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/319/5860/169.short Marengo, J.A. et al. 2008. The Drought of Amazonia in 2005. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2007JCLI1600.1 Nepstad, D. et al. 1999. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v398/n6727/abs/398505a0.html Nepstad, D. et al. 2001. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112701005114 Nickl, et al. 2010. Changes in Annual Land-Surface Precipitation Over the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2010.500241