Articles | Volume 28, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3837-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3837-2024
Research article
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23 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 23 Aug 2024

Rainfall redistribution in subtropical Chinese forests changes over 22 years

Wanjun Zhang, Thomas Scholten, Steffen Seitz, Qianmei Zhang, Guowei Chu, Linhua Wang, Xin Xiong, and Juxiu Liu

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Experimental rainfall dataset in subtropical Chinese forests W. Zhang https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13329757

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Rainfall input generally controls soil water and plant growth. We focus on rainfall redistribution in succession sequence forests over 22 years. Some changes in rainwater volume and chemistry in the throughfall and stemflow and drivers were investigated. Results show that shifted open rainfall over time and forest factors induced remarkable variability in throughfall and stemflow, which potentially makes forecasting future changes in water resources in the forest ecosystems more difficult.