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THE very general belief in the influence of forests upon climate, and especially upon rainfall, is discussed by Prof. R. de Courcy Ward in an interesting article in the April number of The Popular Science Monthly. The subject is very complicated, and the author points out that we must be careful not to put the cart before the horse; in other words, the forests are the result of the rainfall, and not vice versâ.
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Forests and Climate . Nature 91, 333 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091333a0
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