But, it is difficult to imagine a wetter world in which little of the substantial increase in precipitation falls on forests and agricultural lands.
Any wetter month would therefore have failed to trigger flowering and fruiting.
Most of the stuff we use is from the warmer, wetter half of the planet where plants grow best.
With the lush food available in the wetter weather the dry matter declined to 17-19%.
One might expect the topsoil to be drier and the subsoil to be wetter in gaps compared to the understorey.
This created a patch of wet sand with a wetter centre and drier periphery, of about 70 cm x 30 cm (see fig. 2b).
This relationship appeared in the wetter, southern part of the country.
Patterns of litterfall suggest that the driest site may be slightly more productive than wetter forests.
