Does canopy wetness matter? Evapotranspiration from a subtropical montane cloud forest in Taiwan

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1190-1214

  Chu, Hou Sen ^a,b   Chang, Shih Chieh ^a   Klemm, Otto ^c   Lai, Cheng Wei ^a   Lin, You Zhu ^a   Wu, Chi Chen ^a   Lin, Ji Yu ^a   Jiang, Jhia Ying ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^b   Gottgens, Johan F ^b   Hsia, Yue Joe ^a  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Forest water use; Leaf wetness; Montane cloud forest; Sap flow

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; LEAF WETNESS; SAP FLOW; WATER USE;

EVAPORATION; FLOW RATE; FOG; FORESTRY; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOG; INTERCEPTION; MONTANE FOREST; PERIODICITY; RAINFALL; SAP FLOW; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WETTING;

EVAPORATION; FORESTS; LEAVES; RAIN; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

TAIWAN;

CALLITROPSIS NOOTKATENSIS; CHAMAECYPARIS; CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA VAR. FORMOSANA;

EID: 84891745420     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9662     Document Type: Article

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