transpiration

"We could exactly pinpoint how this is related to water transpiration and the ions the plant carries via the ascent of sap."

ET includes evaporation from soil and open water pools such as lakes, rivers, and ponds, as well as transpiration from plant leaves.

Scientists have a variety of methods to estimate the amount of water ascending from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere due to evaporation and transpiration through plant leaves.

As one plant loses moisture through the leaves, often called transpiration, the neighboring plants benefit.

And southern portions of the Arctic will warm so much that evaporation and plant transpiration will send much of the additional precipitation back to the atmosphere, resulting in an overall drying out of the landscape.