{"id":269696,"date":"2023-11-17T20:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=269696"},"modified":"2023-11-17T20:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:51:02","slug":"high-rainfall-afforded-resilience-to-tropical-rainforests-around-50-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/high-rainfall-afforded-resilience-to-tropical-rainforests-around-50-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"High rainfall afforded resilience to tropical rainforests around 50 million years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>High rainfall afforded resilience to tropical rainforests around 50 million years ago<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>\u201cPIB\u201d on 17th November 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in the News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) have <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discovered how equatorial forests survived in much warmer times on Earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 50 million years ago, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earth was around 13\u00b0C warmer than present and carbon dioxide concentration was more than 1000 ppmv (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">parts per million volume).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affected the survival of mid- and high latitude forests due to changes in the hydrological cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the equatorial forests survived successfully at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How did equatorial forests survive successfully during this warm period?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equatorial rainforests managed to survive this warm period due to high rainfall, crucial for their resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heightened rainfall likely boosted the water efficiency of plants, aiding their survival in warm conditions and high carbon dioxide levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the significance of these findings?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1.This will help in developing a tool <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to understand ancient tropical climates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2.This study is also useful in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">understanding how climatic and biotic changes occur at present and in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>UPSC Syllabus: Geography in News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cHigh rainfall afforded resilience to tropical rainforests around 50 million years ago\u201d published in \u201cPIB\u201d on 17th November 2023 Why in the News? Scientists at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) have discovered how equatorial forests survived in much warmer times on Earth.\u00a0 Background: Around 50 million&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/high-rainfall-afforded-resilience-to-tropical-rainforests-around-50-million-years-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High rainfall afforded resilience to tropical rainforests around 50 million years ago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-269696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700250624},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}