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Ecology & Environment
Ecology and Environment
Asha Gupta* & L Usharani (2009)
“Rainfall partitioning in a Tropical Forest of Manipur, North East India”,
J. Tropical Ecology Vol. 50 (2), PP (355-358).
Rainfall partitioning in a Tropical Forest of Manipur, North East India

Abstract: Precipitation follows several pathways before arriving at the forest floor in a forested ecosystem (Rutter & Morton 1977).Incident rain passing through the forest canopy can be divided into three fluxes.One flux free falling through canopy and dripping down the leaves is called throughfall.Whereas the other flux runs down the branches and trucks and is called stemflow. However,a part of precipitation never reaches the soil but is evaporated from the forest canopy and is known as interception.Numerous investigators have measured rainfall both in the open and beneath forest canopies (Joren et al.2008; Keim 2004; Link et al. 2004; Price et al. 2003;Pypker et al. 2005; Staelens et al.2006). » Read full

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