Finding water amid the trees | CIFOR Forests News Blog
▻http://blog.cifor.org/40702/finding-water-amid-the-trees?fnl=en
n arid places where water is scarce, the planting of trees is often discouraged out of the belief that trees always reduce the availability of much-needed water.
Yet scientists working in Burkina Faso found that when a certain number of trees are present, the amount of groundwater recharge is actually maximized.
The study is a “game changer”, according to one of the study’s authors, Douglas Sheil, professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and a senior research associate with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics
▻http://www.nature.com/articles/srep21930