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Cool insights for a hot world
Published: 22 March 2017
Please join leading scientists with the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) online for the virtual symposium: Cool insights for a hot world: Trees and forests recycle water and modify climate
On the occasion of the International Day of Forests (21 March) and World Water Day (22 March), the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) is hosting a virtual symposium on the linkages of forests, water and climate. The main speaker is David Ellison from Future Forest, SLU.
The whole event is built on an article by authors from SLU among others: Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world, which at the moment has over 14 000 downloads on Mendely and over 700 reads in Research Gate.
The authors suggest that the global conversation on trees, forests and climate needs to be turned on its head: the direct effects of trees on the climate via rainfall and cooling may be more important than the well-studied effects through the global carbon balance.