The importance of epiphytes to total rainfall interception by a tropical montane rain forest in Costa Rica

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 292, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 308-322

  Hölscher, Dirk ^a,c   Köhler, Lars ^a   Van Dijk, Albert I J M ^b   Bruijnzeel, L A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epiphytes; Gash model; Interception; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN;

EPIPHYTES; NON-VASCULAR PLANTS; RAINFALL INTERCEPTION; WATER FLUXES;

HYDROLOGY;

EPIPHYTE; INTERCEPTION; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER STORAGE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CORDILLERA DE TALAMANCA;

BRYOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; QUERCUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 2342481890     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.01.015     Document Type: Article

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