transpiration

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Oxygen isotopes function as tracers, allowing scientists to learn about water sources, plant transpiration, and atmospheric moisture.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase, plants may need to open their stomata less frequently, leading to decreased transpiration and preserving more groundwater.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024

As the air becomes hotter, it becomes easier for plants to lose water to transpiration, especially because photosynthesis occurs during daylight hours when temperatures are highest.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024

As one plant loses moisture through its leaves via transpiration, the neighboring plants benefit.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

In other cases Fungi, and even Bacteria, have been found to have made their way into the principal vessels, the lumina of which they stop up, thus reducing the transpiration current.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall