Throughfall variability in an open tropical rainforest
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Throughfall and temporal trends of rainfall redistribution in an open tropical rainforest, south-western Amazonia (Rondônia, Brazil) S. Germer, H. Elsenbeer, and J. M. Moraes Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany CENA, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, S.P., Brazil Received: 9 November 2005 – Accepted: 26 November 2005 – Published: 19 December 2005 Correspondence to: S. Germer ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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