Variability of throughfall quantity in a mixed evergreen-deciduous broadleaved forest in central China

Lei Su; Zongqiang Xie; Wenting Xu; Changming Zhao

doi:10.2478/johh-2019-0008

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Variability of throughfall quantity in a mixed evergreen-deciduous broadleaved forest in central China

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

Volume 67 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)

By: Lei Su, Zongqiang Xie, Wenting Xu and Changming Zhao

Open Access

|Jun 2019

Abstract

Mixed evergreen-deciduous broadleaved forest is the transitional type of evergreen broadleaved forest and deciduous broadleaved forest, and plays a unique eco-hydrologic role in terrestrial ecosystem. We investigated the spatio-temporal patterns of throughfall volume of the forest type in Shennongjia, central China. The results indicated that throughfall represented 84.8% of gross rainfall in the forest. The mean CV (coefficient of variation) of throughfall was 27.27%. Inter-event variability in stand-scale throughfall generation can be substantially altered due to changes in rainfall characteristics, throughfall CV decreased with increasing rainfall amount and intensity, and reached a quasi-constant level when rainfall amount reached 25 mm or rainfall intensity reached 2 mm h⁻¹. During the leafed period, the spatial pattern of throughfall was highly temporal stable, which may result in spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2019-0008 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4333 | Journal ISSN: 0042-790X

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Language: English

Page range: 225 - 231

Submitted on: Feb 27, 2018

Accepted on: May 30, 2018

Published on: Jun 26, 2019

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Keywords:

Throughfall,

Spatial variability,

Temporal stability,

Mixed evergreen-deciduous broadleaved forest,

Shennongjia

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