Rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow and interception loss by two xerophytic shrubs within a rain-fed re-vegetated desert ecosystem, northwestern China》.pdf

Journal of Hydrology 527 (2015) 1084–1095 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Hydrology journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/jhydrol Rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow and interception loss by two xerophytic shrubs within a rain-fed re-vegetated desert ecosystem, northwestern China Ya-feng Zhang a, Xin-ping Wang a,⇑, Rui Hu a, Yan-xia Pan a, Marcos Paradeloc b,c a Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China b Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, P.O. Box 50, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark c Dept. of Plant Biology and Soil Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, E-32004 Ourense, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o s u m m a r y Article history: Knowledge of rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow and interception loss by xerophytic shrubs Received 30 September 2014 is useful for implementing and evaluating re-vegetation projects, and for hydrologic budget modeling Received in revised form 22 April 2015 over vast arid desert areas. However, information about rainfall partitioning by xerophytic shrubs and Accepted 30 May 2015 the controlling factors are still under-represented in the literature. This study examined whether mor- Available online 5 June 2015 phological features play a significant role in rainfall partitioning, using two xerophytic shrubs that are This manuscript was handled by Laurent Charlet, Edito