The expansion of an urban tree canopy is a commonly proposed nature-based solution to combat excess urban heat. The influence trees have on urban climates via shading is driven by the morphological ...

As temperatures rise in July and August, transpiration from plants might add to the humidity. One plant that gets more blame than others is corn, said Dan Quinn, assistant professor of agronomy and ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 10, No. 29 (June 1959), pp. 301-316 (16 pages) The relationship between the rate at which water and the rubidium and phosphate ions are absorbed by intact plants, ...

Most of the water that enters a plant will exit the leaf into the atmosphere. This provides a continuous stream of water which is known as the transpiration stream. Surface area (not an environmental ...