Interception water-partitioning dynamics for a pristine rainforest in Central Amazonia: Marked differences between normal and dry years

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 69-83

  Cuartas, Luz Adriana ^a   Tomasella, Javier ^a   Nobre, Antonio Donato ^b   Hodnett, Martin G ^c   Waterloo, Maarten J ^c   Múnera, Juan Camilo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest; Climate variability; Evaporation; Interception loss; Stemflow; Throughfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO; EVAPORATION; INTERCEPTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTITIONING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL VARIATION; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFALL; WATER VAPOR;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250020476     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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