Abstract The higher elevation (>200 m ASL) forests of Norfolk Island are regularly immersed in the clouds and scientific anecdotal evidence suggests that addition to rainfall, water is likely be collected as cloud droplets intercepted by forest canopy. This important for local hydrology ecology, yet it has never been quantified. To address this, a field measurement campaign was established m...

Abstract. Rainfall interception loss remains one of the most uncertain fluxes in global water balance, hindering management forested regions and precluding an accurate formulation climate models. Here, a synthesis data from past field experiments conducted worldwide is performed, resulting meta-analysis comprising 166 forest sites 17 agricultural plots. This used to constrain process-based mode...

Rainfall interception by vegetation plays an important role in the hydrological cycle. Next to rainfall characteristics, is influenced tree size, crown structure and bark morphology. How traits determine across functionally morphologically wide-ranging species poorly understood. We determined ratios (interception:gross precipitation) canopy storage capacities of seven temperate deciduous broadl...