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Publication Date
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2026-07-06 |
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Title
| New technique to measure forest floor interception – an application in a beech forest in Luxembourg [* Cross-Reference *] |
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Other Identifier
| https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-11-695-2007
OpenAlex ID: https://openalex.org/W2152932590 |
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Author
| A. M. J. Gerrits (Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology)
H. H. G. Savenije (Delft University of Technology)Delft University of TechnologyORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-7203
L. Hoffmann (Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, Luxembourg Institute of Science and TechnologyORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0242-4686
Laurent Pfister (Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, Luxembourg Institute of Science and TechnologyORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-5753 |
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Description
| In hydrological models, evaporation from interception is often disregarded, combined with transpiration, or taken as a fixed percentage of rainfall. In general interception is not considered to be a significant process in rainfall-runoff modelling. However, it appears that on average interception can amount to 20-50% of the precipitation. Therefore, knowledge about the process of interception is important. Traditional research on interception mainly focuses on canopy interception and almost completely denies forest floor interception, although this is an important mechanism that precedes infiltration or runoff. Forest floor interception consists partly of interception by dry soil, partly of interception by short vegetation (mosses, grasses and creeping vegetation) and partly of interception by litter. This research project concentrates on litter interception: to measure its quantities at point scale and subsequently to upscale it to that of a hydrotope. A special measuring device has been developed, which consists of a permeable upper basin filled with forest floor, and a watertight lower basin. Both are weighed continuously. The device has been tested in the Huewelerbach catchment (Luxembourg). The preliminary measuring results show that the device is working properly. For November 2004, evaporation from interception was calculated to be 14mm of 42mm throughfall (i.e., 34%). (2007-01-17)
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Subject
| Agricultural Sciences; Arts and Humanities; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Physics |
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Keyword
| Interception
Throughfall
Canopy interception
Environmental science
Surface runoff
Hydrology (agriculture)
Forest floor
Beech
Transpiration
Canopy
Stemflow
Vegetation (pathology)
Soil science
Geology
Forestry
Ecology
Soil water
Geography |
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Topic Classification
| Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Soil erosion and sediment transport |
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Deposit Date
| 2007-01-17 |
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Data Type
| Article |
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Data Source
| Hydrology and earth system sciences |