This video sponsored by our Subbable supporter Cookie Blast: Cookie Blast at App Store - appstore.com/cookieblast Cookie Blast Facebook - facebook.com/cookieblastapp And thanks to Subbable supporter Steve Moyers for helping make MinuteEarth possible! To support MinuteEarth on Subbable click here: subbable.com/minuteearth REFERENCES Boyce, C.K. et al. 2010. Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity. www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3417/2009143 Boyce, C.K. and Lee, J.-E. 2010. An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity. rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/277/1699/3437.short Lee, J.‐E., and Boyce, C.K. 2010. Impact of the hydraulic capacity of plants on water and carbon fluxes in tropical South America. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010JD014568/full Lewis, S.L. et al. 2011. The 2010 Amazon Drought. www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6017/554.short Malhi, Y. et al. 2008. Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon. www.sciencemag.org/content/319/5860/169.short Marengo, J.A. et al. 2008. The Drought of Amazonia in 2005. journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2007JCLI1600.1 Nepstad, D. et al. 1999. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. www.nature.com/nature/journal/v398/n6727/abs/398505a0.html Nepstad, D. et al. 2001. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112701005114 Nickl, et al. 2010. Changes in Annual Land-Surface Precipitation Over the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2010.500241 IMAGE SOURCES Land Surface Temperature Image by: Reto Stockli, NASA's Earth Observatory Team neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MOD11C1_M_LSTDA Deforestation Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/deforestation.php Amazon Droughts and Forest Fires Image by: The Earth Observatory, NASA earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5930 Thanks to Seth Riedel for pronunciation advice! MinuteEarth is available as a free iTunes podcast! - podcast.minuteearth.com/ We're also on facebook - facebook.com/minuteearth And twitter - twitter.com/MinuteEarth MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes! Created by Henry Reich Writing and Editing Team: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert Animation: Ever Salazar Music by Nathaniel Schroeder: www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder

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