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These findings have several implications in a warmer and increasingly water limited world. Primarily, the ability to increase forage production for grazing animals in times of scarcity, thus alleviating some of the economic hardship faced by producers.

Furthermore, we compared grassland productivity across wet, average, and dry years (decreasing water availability) and found an inverse relationship where productivity increased relative to control.

This finding supports our hypothesis that growth benefits from reduced water stress could outweigh potential reductions in growth from solar panel shading. We refer to this as the Aridity Mitigation Potential (AMP) hypothesis.

We found that grassland co-located with solar PV was 20% more productive than control grassland during a dry year.