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Subproject 2 will use field data, remote sensing data and downscaled projections from the Subproject 1 climate model to quantify green and blue water availability and pasture productivity to test (1) if blue water availability is a function of watershed size, slope, and land cover, and if dry season green water depends on precipitation, soil texture, time since deforestation, and stocking rate, (2) if deforestation in a watershed improves the availability of surface water for the properties in that watershed in both the wet and dry seasons, (3) if intensification, as represented by increased stocking density, reduces the ability of water to seep into soil, resulting in more overland flow in the wet season, (4) if soil water availability at the end of the dry season decreases as sand content, stocking density, and time since deforestation increase, and (5) if soil water availability correlates with remotely-sensed non-photosynthetic vegetation.