During a one-year period, the variability of throughfall and the standard errors of the means associated with different gauge arrangements were studied in a lower montane rain forest in Puerto Rico. The following gauge arrangements were used: (1) 60 fixed gauges, (2) 30 fixed gauges, and (3) 30 roving gauges. Stemflow was measured on 22 trees of four different species. An ANOVA indicated that m...

The spatial variability of stemflow on the bole trees has rarely been focal point studies, despite its potential importance for stemflow-induced changes to soils. This study helps close this data gap by supplying quantitative possible drivers circumferential variation boles two Pinus sylvestris L. (Scots pine). Hence, objectives present were quantify tree stems and assess how some biotic abioti...

Abstract. Rainfall is known as the main water replenishment in dryland ecosystems, and rainfall partitioning by vegetation reshapes spatial temporal distribution patterns of rainwater entry into soil. The dynamics have been extensively studied at inter-event scale, yet very few studies explored its finer intra-event relating driving factors for shrubs. Here, we conducted a concurrent in-depth i...

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...

r a 200 .012 : +43 1 anek@u Summary Bulk precipitation, throughfall and stemflow were collected to study anthropogenic effects on above-ground nutrient cycling in an off-shoremangrove forest (Rhizophora mangle L.) on Twin Cays, Belize. Samples were collected in a nitrogen limited fringe and phosphorus limited dwarf zone, and from an adjacent nitrogen fertilized fringe and a phosphorus fertilize...

Vegetation plays a significant role in the isotopic fractionation of rainwater during rainfall partitioning through canopy into throughfall and stemflow. Most studies focus on composition throughfall, whereas that stemflow has been studied much less frequently. Moreover, only three to date have investigated at intra-storm scale. Therefore, knowledge shift between throughfall/stemflow fine resol...

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...