Tropical rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler ABOUT THE RAINFOREST (SUMMARY) Chapter 1: RAINFOREST DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS Each rainforest is unique, but there are certain features common to all tropical rainforests. Location: rainforests lie in the tropics. ...
Environmental gradients and location of forest plots situated in the Área de Conservación Osa (ACOSA), southwestern Costa Rica (8°41′N, 83°13′W). Upper left panel (a): Elevation (m a.s.l.) based on SRTM ASTER data58. Upper right panel (b): Annual rainfall (mm yr−1) bas...
tropical forestfirepyrolysis characteristicsflashoverSeries of pyrolysis experiments have been carried out on several typical Chinese tropic plants to study their combustion and kinetic regulations. High water content was found in most southern plants, which would restrai...
Double-funneling of trees: Stemflow and root-induced preferential flow Stand characteristics that influence the spatial parti- tioning of incident precipitation for a mixed species forest include overall forest canopy structure, ... MS Johnson,J Lehmann - 《ãcoscience》 被引量: 264发表: ...
Based on the 1996-2006 daily runoff data of tropical seasonal rainforest catchments in Xishuangbanna,the annual base flow index(BFI) values of the catchments were calculated,and by using these BFI values to partition the daily runoff data according as the hypothesis of dual-water source,the tot...
Forest inventories were first split into 1-ha (i.e. 100 × 100 m) and 0.16-ha (i.e. 40 × 40 m) plots, using information on tree location recorded in the field (i.e. either individual tree location or quadrat number). The two plot sizes correspond to the two mapping...
Table 1 Network characteristics of tree and species networks at three tropical forest sites. Full size table Basic characteristics of the tree networks Node degree distribution of the tree networks Full size image Node degree distribution of the species networks ...
(Bruijnzeel, 2001) and infiltration is rapid. Thus, treetops and leaf coverage protect the soil from being washed away, and moisture contained in rainforests acts as a thermal regulator, preventing abrupt temperature changes and subsequent droughts. All these hydrological characteristics make tropical ...
On the basis of this measurements, the air temperature characteristics and their spatial variations in different seasons in the secondary forest canopy gap were discussed. The findings showed that there was a significant thermal effect at the gap.The effect of sunshine on the air temperature in ...
Biophysical effects from deforestation have the potential to amplify carbon losses but are often neglected in carbon accounting systems. Here we use both Earth system model simulations and satellite–derived estimates of aboveground biomass to assess los