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The temporal dynamics of forest canopy rainfall partitioning are important to forest ecology and management as it influences all subsequent hydrological processes along the rainfall-to-discharge flow path. Despite a growing body of literature on the importance of coupled hydrological–ecological interactions during periodic forest life cycle events, little work has examined how canopy rainfall partitioning varies across transitional leaf states (between the leafed vs. leafless states). This study analyzed a 3 year field monitoring campaign for two tree species in semiarid Iran (Robinia pseudoacacia and Platanus orientalis) to describe rainfall partitioning dynamics across the full-leaf, senescence, leafless, and leafing states. Crown saturation point, canopy storage capacity, free throughfall coefficient and the ratio of wet canopy evaporation rate to mean rainfall intensity were related to decreases/increases in plant area index and canopy closure. The high variability of rainfall partitioning observed in this study highlights the importance of transitional leaf states in the temporal characterization of water inputs to forest surfaces and boundary layer.
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We gratefully acknowledge Mr. Seyed Gholamreza Sadeghi’s and Mrs. Zahra Saeedi financial support and the assistance of Azade Deljouei, Maysam Jabbari, Shojaat Babapour, Amir Hosseyn Khalili Pir, and Arash Daei with sample collection and site maintenance.
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Sadeghi, S.M.M., Van Stan, J.T., Pypker, T.G. et al. Importance of transitional leaf states in canopy rainfall partitioning dynamics. Eur J Forest Res 137, 121–130 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-017-1098-4
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