The Plant You Don’t Have To Water
Some plants can drink water from the air - and that has some weird effects on the forests where they live. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Epiphyte: a plant that grows on another plant but does not feed from it 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 ********* Kate Yoshida | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Lizah van der Aart | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Aldo de Vos | Music Thanks to Prof. Jon Van Stan for sharing his expertise in wet plants: https://twitter.com/Prof_Van_Stan MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Merch | http://dftba.com/minuteearth MinuteEarth Explains Book | https://minuteearth.com/books 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 ************** Gotsch, S., Nadkarni, N., & Amici, A. (2016). The functional roles of epiphytes and arboreal soils in tropical montane cloud forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 32(5), 455-468. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026646741600033X Hargis H, Gotsch SG, Porada P, Moore GW, Ferguson B, Van Stan JT II. (2019) Arboreal Epiphytes in the Soil-Atmosphere Interface: How Often Are the Biggest “Buckets” in the Canopy Empty? Geosciences 9(8):342. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9080342 Hembre K, Meyer A, Route T, Glauser A and Stanton DE (2021) Stand-Level Variation Drives Canopy Water Storage by Non-vascular Epiphytes Across a Temperate-Boreal Ecotone. Front. For. Glob. Change 4:704190. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.704190 Nadkarni, N. M. (1984). Epiphyte Biomass and Nutrient Capital of a Neotropical Elfin Forest. Biotropica, 16(4), 249–256. https://doi.org/10.2307/2387932 Porada, P., Van Stan, J.T. & Kleidon, A. (2018). Significant contribution of non-vascular vegetation to global rainfall interception. Nature Geosci 11, 563–567. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0176-7 Stanton, D.E., Huallpa Chávez, J., Villegas, L., Villasante, F., Armesto, J., Hedin, L.O. and Horn, H. (2014), Epiphytes improve host plant water use by microenvironment modification. Funct Ecol, 28: 1274-1283. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12249 Stuntz, S., Simon, U. & Zotz, G. (2002) Rainforest air-conditioning: the moderating influence of epiphytes on the microclimate in tropical tree crowns. Int J Biometeorol 46, 53–59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-001-0117-8
