Fog interception in a puerto rican elfin cloud forest: A wet-canopy water budget approach

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 282-292

  Holwerda, F ^a   Bruijnzeel, L A ^b   Oord, A L ^b   Scatena, F N ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84933510798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511778384.031     Document Type: Chapter

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