Table 2 Crop water use and areas of intact Amazon forest required to meet water demands of rainfed crops (shown as area of forest required to meet water demand of 1 m2 of crop)

From: Quantifying tropical forest rainfall generation

Rainfed crop

Estimated water use (L m–2 yr–1)

Data from Flach et al.11

Area of intact Amazon forest required to meet water demands of 1 m2 of crop (m2)

Cotton

607

2.02

Maize

425

1.42

Second season maize

323

1.08

Soybeans

501

1.67

Wheat

285

0.95

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