To determine the biochemical basis of osmotic adjustment, seasonal and treatment differences in foliar water- soluble organic solutes and inorganic ions were investigated for two hardwood species that exhibited osmotic adjustment in a Throughfall Displacement Experiment at the Walker Branch Watershed near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Leaf samples of overstory and understory chestnut oak (Quercus prinu...

Stemflow, a precipitation and solute supply to soils near tree stems, can play a wide array of roles in ecosystem functioning. However, stemflow's ecohydrological functions have been primarily studied in forests with voluminous stemflow because resource subsidy is currently considered stemflow's only impact on near-stem soils. This common assumption ignores controls that stemflow generation may...

Throughfall kinetic energy (TKE) plays an important role in soil erosion in forests. We studied TKE as a function of biodiversity, functional diversity as well as structural stand variables in a secondary subtropical broad-leaved forest in the Gutianshan National Nature Reserve (GNNR) in south-east China, a biodiversity hotspot in the northern hemisphere with more than 250 woody species present...

Climate change may foster pest epidemics in forests, and thereby the fluxes of elements that are indicators of ecosystem functioning. We examined compounds of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in insect faeces, leaf litter, throughfall and analysed the soils of deciduous oak forests (Quercus petraea L.) that were heavily infested by the leaf herbivores winter moth (Operophtera brumata L.) and mottled...

Tropical forests play a substantial role in the global carbon (C) cycle and are projected to experience significant environmental change, highlighting the importance of understanding the factors that control C and N cycling in this biome. Yet interactions between biogeochemical and abiotic variables, notably species diversity and precipitation, remain poorly resolved in the tropics. In a wet lo...

Given that atmospheric deposition is the first source of nutrient input into forest ecosystems, and precipitation partition serves as a nutritional mainly when there an interaction with canopy, objective present study was to quantify nutrients rainfall, throughfall stemflow in Eucalyptus urophylla stands partial exclusion (E) without (WE) throughfall. The experiment conducted northeast state Pa...

we estimated the rainfall interception loss (i), canopy storage capacity (s), the ratio of mean evaporation rate from the wet canopy () over the mean rainfall intensity () (mm h-1) (), and free throughfall coefficient (p) in a fraxinus rotundifolia mill. stand located in an afforested park land in a semiarid region of iran. for each storm event, i was calculated as the gross rainfall (gr) minus...

0022-1694/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.06.048 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 707 825 2933; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (L.M. Reid). Rainfall, throughfall, and stemflow were monitored at 5-min intervals for 3 years in a 120-year-old forest dominated by redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) at the Caspar Creek Exper...