BlueGreen Labs recently contributed to a new study on the storage and transit time of water in vegetation in Nature Water. This study highlights both the size and the turnover of this pool. The study shows some 484 km3 of fresh water is stored in aboveground vegetation, with over half of it in equatorial forests and savannahs. This work offers an important integrated measure of functional responses of vegetation to water dynamics and how global changes might impact ecohydrology.
You can find this new study in our publications index, and at Nature Water.
Felton, A.J., Fisher, J.B., Hufkens, K. et al. Global estimates of the storage and transit time of water through vegetation. Nat Water (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00365-9
