Pollen shedding can produce rapid, abundant exchanges of nutrient-rich biomass from plant canopies to the surface. When pollen deposits onto understory plants, it be washed off during storms via throughfall (a drip flux) and stemflow flux down stems). deposition may also alter organismal community on surfaces, changing other biological particulates transported by stemflow. We report concentrati...

In stemflow, rainfall is collected and channeled to a concentrated soil water input. It can constitute up 30% of incident precipitation in some ecosystems. However, the size zone influenced by stemflow unclear, statistically representative measurement (on between sites) scarce. Therefore, whether creates hotspots infiltration potential impacts on forest soils remain subject controversy. this st...

The deposition of fog to a wind-exposed 3 m tall Puerto Rican cloud forest at 1010 m elevation was studied using the water budget and eddy covariance methods. Fog deposition was calculated from the water budget as throughfall plus stemflow plus interception loss minus rainfall corrected for wind-induced loss and effect of slope. The eddy covariance method was used to calculate the turbulent liq...

Seasonal oxygen-18 variations in precipitation, throughfall, soil water, spring ̄ow and stream base ̄ow were analysed to compare the hydrology of two forested basins in West Virginia (WV) (34 and 39 ha) and one in Pennsylvania (PA) (1134 ha). Precipitation and throughfall were measured with funnel/bottle samplers, soil water with ceramic-cup suction lysimeters and spring ̄ow/base ̄ows by grab and...