A simple technique for measuring rainfall interception by small shrub: “interception flow collection box”
✍ Scribed by F. Belmonte Serrato; A. Romero Diaz
- Book ID
- 101282466
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6087
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✦ Synopsis
In this paper a simple technique for ®eld measurement of rain water loss arising from interception and water ¯ows associated with species of small Mediterranean shrub is described: the `interception ¯ow collection box'. This technique solves the problem of installing devices to control stem¯ow in species with a multiple trunk and demonstrates its eciency through the results obtained from the data observed for three species of semi-arid Mediterranean shrub: Juniperus oxycedrus, Rosmarinus ocinalis and Thymus vulgaris. Finally, the empirical equations for the prediction of throughfall, stem¯ow and rain water loss through interception are presented for the three selected species and the validity of the technique employed is established.