Hydrologists have thought of soil as a kind of giant sponge that soaks up precipitation and slowly releases it to streams. But according to new evidence the soil water used by vegetation may be largely decoupled from the water that flows through soils to streams.
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Phillips, F. Soil-water bypass. Nature Geosci 3, 77–78 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo762
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