The Plant You Dont Have To Water

Some plants can drink water from the air - and that has some weird effects on the forests where they live. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Epiphyte: a plant that grows on another plant but does not feed from it SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Kate Yoshida | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Lizah van der Aart | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Aldo de Vos | Music Thanks to Prof. Jon Van Stan for sharing his expertise in wet plants: MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Merch | MinuteEarth Explains Book | TikTok | @minuteearth Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website | Apple Podcasts| REFERENCES ************** Gotsch, S., Nadkarni, N., & Amici, A. (2016). The functional roles of epiphytes and arboreal soils in tropical montane cloud forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 32(5), 455-468. Hargis H, Gotsch SG, Porada P, Moore GW, Ferguson B, Van Stan JT II. (2019) Arboreal Epiphytes in the Soil-Atmosphere Interface: How Often Are the Biggest “Buckets” in the Canopy Empty? Geosciences 9(8):342. Hembre K, Meyer A, Route T, Glauser A and Stanton DE (2021) Stand-Level Variation Drives Canopy Water Storage by Non-vascular Epiphytes Across a Temperate-Boreal Ecotone. Front. For. Glob. Change 4:704190. Nadkarni, N. M. (1984). Epiphyte Biomass and Nutrient Capital of a Neotropical Elfin Forest. Biotropica, 16(4), 249–256. Porada, P., Van Stan, J.T. & Kleidon, A. (2018). Significant contribution of non-vascular vegetation to global rainfall interception. Nature Geosci 11, 563–567. Stanton, D.E., Huallpa Chávez, J., Villegas, L., Villasante, F., Armesto, J., Hedin, L.O. and Horn, H. (2014), Epiphytes improve host plant water use by microenvironment modification. Funct Ecol, 28: 1274-1283. Stuntz, S., Simon, U. & Zotz, G. (2002) Rainforest air-conditioning: the moderating influence of epiphytes on the microclimate in tropical tree crowns. Int J Biometeorol 46, 53–59.