Critical Zone Hydrology Group

Leendert Adriaan Bruijnzeel (also known as Sampurno)

Position: Emeritus Professor of Land Use and Hydrology
Amsterdam Critical Zone Hydrology Group
Web: www.hydrology-amsterdam.nl

As of 1 september 2015: Visiting senior research fellow, Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK.
Email: sampurno.bruijnzeel@kcl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/people/visit/DrSampurnoBruijnzeel.aspx

Research interests

Tropical forest hydrology and biogeochemistry
Hydrological impacts of tropical deforestation and reforestation
Erosion and sedimentation
Ecosystem services and conservation

Selected peer-reviewed publications

Books and monographs

Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1983). Hydrological and biogeochemical aspects of man-made forests in South-Central Java, Indonesia. PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 256 pp.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. & Bremmer, C.N. (1989). Highland-Lowland Interactions in the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin: A Review of Published Literature. ICIMOD Occasional Paper no. 11, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, 136 pp.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1990). Hydrology of Moist Tropical Forests and Effects of Conversion: A State of Knowledge Review. Humid Tropics Programme of the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO, Paris, and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 224 pp.
Bonell, M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (Editors) (2005). Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 925 pp.
Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N., and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors) (2010). Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 740 pp.

Peer-reviewed papers and book chapters (selection)

Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1983a). Evaluation of runoff sources in a forested basin under wet monsoonal conditions. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication no. 140, 165-174.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1983b). The chemical mass balance of a small basin in a monsoonal environment and the effect of fast-growing plantation forest. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication no. 141, 229-239.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1984a). Elemental content of litterfall in a Lower Montane Rain Forest. Malayan Nature Journal 37, 199-208.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1984b). Immobilization of nutrients in plantation forests of Pinus merkusii and Agathis dammara growing on volcanic soils in Central Java. In A.T. Bachik & E. Pushparajah (Editors), Soils and Nutrition of Perennial Crops. Malaysian Soil Science Society, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 19-29.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1985). Nutrient content of litterfall in coniferous forest plantations in Central Java, Indonesia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 1, 353-372.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Wiersum, K.F. (1985). A nutrient balance sheet for Agathis dammara Warb. plantation forest under various management conditions in central Java, Indonesia. Forest Ecology & Management 10, 195-208.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Wiersum, K.F. (1987). Rainfall interception by a young Acacia auriculiformis (A. Cunn.) plantation forest in West Java, Indonesia: Application of Gash's analytical model. Hydrological Processes 1, 309-319.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1988). Estimates of evaporation in plantations of Agathis dammara Warb. in south central Java, Indonesia. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 1, 145-161.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1989a). Nutrient content of bulk precipitation in south central Java, Indonesia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 5, 187-202.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1989b). (De)forestation and dry-season flow in the tropics: A closer look. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 1, 229-243.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1989c). Moist tropical forest nutrient cycling: the hydrological framework. In J. Proctor (Editor), Mineral Nutrients in Tropical Forest and Savanna Ecosystems. Special Publication no. 9 of the British Ecological Society. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford; pp. 383-415.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1991). Nutrient input-output budgets of moist tropical forest ecosystems: A review. Journal of Tropical Ecology 7, 1-24.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1992a). Managing tropical forest watersheds for production: Where contradictory theory and practice co-exist. I F.R. Miller & K.L. Adam (Editors), Wise Management of Tropical Forests 1992. Oxford Forestry Institute, Oxford; pp. 37-75.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1992b). Sustainability of fast-growing plantation species in the humid tropics, including nutritional aspects. In C.F. Jordan et al. (Editors), Taungya: Forest Plantations with Agriculture in Southeast Asia. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Wallingford, U.K.; pp. 51-67.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1993). Land use and hydrology in warm humid regions: Where do we stand? International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication no. 216, 1-37 (keynote address).
Bruijnzeel, L.A., Waterloo, J.M., Proctor, J., Kuiters, A.T. & Kotterink, B. (1993). Hydrological observations in montane rain forests on Gunung Silam, Sabah, Malaysia, with special reference to the "Massenerhebungeffect". Journal of Ecology 81, 145-167.
Van der Plas, M.C. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1993). The impact of mechanized selective logging of lowland rainforest on topsoil infiltrability in the upper Segama area, Sabah, Malaysia. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication no. 216, 203-211.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Proctor, J. (1995). Hydrology and biogeochemistry of tropical montane cloud forests: What do we really know? In L.S. Hamilton, J.O. Juvik & F.N. Scatena (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Ecological Studies no. 110. Springer, New York; pp. 38-78.
Critchley, W.R.S. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1995). Terrace risers: Erosion control or sediment source? In J.B. Singh and M.J. Haigh (Editors), Sustainable Reconstruction of Highland and Headwater Regions. Balkema, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; pp. 529-541.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1996). Predicting the hydrological impacts of land cover transformation: The need for integrated research. In J.H.C. Gash et al. (editors), Amazonian Deforestation and Climate. J. Wiley, Chichester, UK; pp. 15-55.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Critchley, W.R.S. (1996). A new approach towards quantifying contributions of runoff and eroded sediment from bench-terraces in humid tropical steeplands and its application in South-Central Java, Indonesia. In M.G. Anderson and S.M. Brooks (Editors), Advances in Hillslope Processes, Volume 2. J. Wiley, Chichester, UK; pp. 921-937.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1997). Hydrology of forest plantations in the humid tropics. In E.K.S. Nambiar and A.G. Brown (Editors), Management of Soil, Nutrients and Water in Tropical Plantation Forests. ACIAR, Canberra and CIFOR, Jakarta; pp. 125-167.
Proctor, J., Baker, A.J.M., Van Balgooy, M.M.J., Jones, S.H., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Madulid, D.A. (1997). Mount Bloomfield, Palawan, the Philippines: The scrub and Gymnostoma woodland on ultramafic rocks. In T. Jaffré (Editor), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Serpentine Soils, New Caledonia, ORSTOM, Paris; pp. 21-29.
Rozema, J., Chardonnens, A., Tosserams, M., Hafkenscheid, R. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1997). Leaf thickness and UV-B absorbing pigments of plants in relation to an elevational gradient along the Blue Mountains, Jamaica. Plant Ecology 128, 150-159.
Waterloo, M.J., Schellekens, J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Assenberg, P.N., Vugts, H.F. and Rawaqa, T.T. (1997). The chemical composition of bulk precipitation in south-western Viti Levu, Fiji. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13, 427-447.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1998). Soil chemical responses to tropical forest disturbance and conversion: The hydrological connection. In A. Schulte and D. Ruhiyat (Editors), Tropical Forest Soils and Their Management. World Scientific Publications, Singapore; pp. 45-61.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Veneklaas, E.J. (1998). Climatic conditions and tropical montane forest productivity: The fog has not lifted yet. Ecology 78, 3-9.
Bruijnzeel, L.A., Van Eijk, B. and Purwanto, E. (1998). Runoff and soil loss from bench terraces in upland West Java, Indonesia and implications for process modelling. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication no. 249, 211-220.
Burghouts, Th.B.A., Van Straalen, N.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1998). Spatial heterogeneity of element turnover and litter decomposition in a Bornean rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 14, 477-506.
Hafkenscheid, R.R.L.J., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and De Jeu, R.A.M. (1998). Estimates of fog interception by montane rain forest in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. In R.S. Schemenauer and H.A. Bridgman (Editors), International Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, IDRC, Ottawa, CA; pp. 33-36.
Purwanto, E. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1998). Soil conservation on rainfed bench terraces in upland West Java, Indonesia: Towards a new paradigm. Advances in GeoEcology 31, 1267-1274.
Schellekens, J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Wickel, A.J., Scatena, F.N. and Silver, W. (1998). Interception of horizontal precipitation in the Luquillo Mountains, Eastern Puerto Rico. In R.S. Schemenauer and H.A. Bridgman (Editors), International Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada; pp. 29-32.
Schlesinger, W.H., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Bush, M.B., Klein, E.M., Mace, K.A., Raikes, J.A. and Whittaker, R.J. (1998). The biogeochemistry of phosphorus after the first century of soil development on Rakata island, Krakatau, Indonesia. Biogeo-chemistry 40, 37-55.
Proctor, J., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Baker, A.M.J. (1999). What causes the vegetation types on Mount Bloomfield, Palawan? Global Ecology & Biogeography 8, 347-354.
Schellekens, J., Scatena, F.N., Bruijnzeel, L.A., and Wickel, A.J. (1999). Modelling rainfall interception by a lowland tropical rain forest in Eastern Puerto Rico. Journal of Hydrology 225, 168-184.
Waterloo, M.J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Vugts, H.F. and Rawaqa, T.T. (1999). Evaporation from Pinus caribaea plantations on former grassland soils under maritime tropical conditions. Water Resources Research 35, 2133-2144.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2000). Forest hydrology. In J.C. Evans (Editor), The Forests Handbook. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford; pp. 301-343.
Proctor, J., Baker, A.J.M., van Balgooy, M.M.J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Jones, S.H. and Madulid, D.A. (2000a). The physical environment and contrasts between forests on ultramafic and non-ultramafic rock on Mount Bloomfield, Palawan, Republic of the Philippines. Journal of the Edinburgh Botanical Society 57, 121-139.
Proctor, J., Baker, A.M.J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Van Balgooy, M.M.J., Fairweather, G.M. and Madulid, D.A. (2000b). Foliar chemistry and leaf herbivory on Mount Bloomfield, Palawan, Philippines. Journal of the Scottish Botanical Society 52, 79-89.
Schellekens, J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Bink, N.J. (2000). Evaporation from a lowland rain forest under maritime conditions. Water Resources Research 36, 2183-2196.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2001). Hydrology of tropical montane cloud forest: A reassessment. Land Use and Water Resources Research 1: 1.1-1.18.
Te Linde, A.H., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Groen, J., Scatena, F.N. & Meijer, H.A.J. (2001). Stable isotopes in rainfall and fog in the Luquillo Mountains, eastern Puerto Rico: A preliminary study. In R.S. Schemenauer and H. Puxbaum (Editors), Second International Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada; pp. 181-184.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2001). Modelling rainfall interception by vegetation of variable density using an adapted analytical model. Part 1. Model description. Journal of Hydrology 247, 230-238.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2001b). Modelling rainfall interception by vegetation of variable density using an adapted analytical model. Part 2. Model validation for a tropical upland mixed cropping system. Journal of Hydrology 247, 239-262.
Hafkenscheid, R.L.L.J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., de Jeu, R.A.M. and Bink, N.J. (2002). Water budgets of two upper montane rain forests of contrasting stature in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica. In J.S. Gladwell (Editor), Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium on Hydrology and Water Management in the Humid Tropics. Technical Documents in Hydrology no. 52, IHP-UNESCO, Paris and CATHALAC, Panama City; pp. 399-424.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Rosewell, C.J. (2002). Rainfall intensity - rainfall kinetic energy relationships: a critical literature appraisal. Journal of Hydrology 261, 1-23.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Meesters, A.G.C.A. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2002). Exponential distribution theory and the interpretation of splash detachment and transport experiments. Soil Science Society of America Journal 66, 1466-1474.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Eisma, E. (2003). A methodology to study rain splash and wash processes under natural rainfall, Hydrological Processes 17,153-167.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Wiegman, S.E. (2003). Measurements of rain splash on bench terraces in a humid tropical steepland environent. Hydrological Processes 17, 513-535.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2004). Hydrological functions of tropical forests: Not seeing the soil for the trees? Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 104, 185-228.
Hoelscher, D., Koehler, L., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2004). The importance of epiphytes to total rainfall interception by a tropical montane rain forest in Costa Rica. Journal of Hydrology 292, 308-322.
Schellekens, J., Scatena, F.N., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Van Hogezand, R.J.P. (2004). Stormflow generation in a small rain forest catchment in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Hydrological Processes 18, 505-530.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2004a). Runoff and soil loss from bench terraces. 1. An event-based model of rainfall infiltration and surface runoff. European Journal of Soil Science 55, 299-316.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2004b). Runoff and soil loss from bench terraces. 2. An event-based erosion process model. European Journal of Soil Science 55, 299-316 & 317-334.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Schellekens, J. (2004). Micrometeorology and water use of mixed crops in upland West Java, Indonesia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 100, 59-72.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Vernimmen, R.R.E. (2004). Environmental benefits of planting fast-growing trees on eroding cropland in Java. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 279, 73-77.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005a). Tropical montane cloud forests: A unique hydrological case. In M. Bonell and L.A. Bruijnzeel (Editors), Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 462-483.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005b). Land use and land cover effects on runoff processes: Forest harvesting and road construction. Chapter 128 in M.G. Anderson (Editor), Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. John Wiley, Chichester, UK; pp. 1813-1830.
Bruijnzeel, L.A., Eugster, W. and Burkard, R. (2005). Fog as a hydrological input. Chapter 38 in M.G. Anderson (Editor), Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. John Wiley, Chichester, UK; pp. 559-582.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. Bonell, M., Gilmour, D.A. and Lamb, D. (2005). Forests, water and people in the humid tropics: An emerging view. In M. Bonell and L.A. Bruijnzeel (Editors), Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 906-925.
Cassells, D.S. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). Guidelines for controlling vegetation, soil and water impacts of timber harvesting in the humid tropics. In M. Bonell and L.A. Bruijnzeel (Editors), Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 840-851.
Grip, H., Fritsch, J.M.and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). Soil and water impacts during forest transformation and stabilisation to new land use. In M. Bonell and L.A. Bruijnzeel (Editors), Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 561-589.
Malmer, A., Van Noordwijk, M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). Effects of shifting cultivation and forest fire. In M. Bonell and L.A. Bruijnzeel (Editors), Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 533-560.
Roberts, J.M., Gash, J.H.C., Tani, M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). Controls on evaporation in lowland tropical rainforest. In M. Bonell & L.A. Bruijnzeel (Editors), Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 287-313.
Scott, D.F., Bruijnzeel, L.A. & Mackensen, J. (2005). The hydrological and soil impacts of forestation in the tropics. In M. Bonell and L.A. Bruijnzeel (Editors), Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK; pp. 622-651.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). Key controls and scale effects on sediment budgets: Recent findings in agricultural upland Java, Indonesia. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 292: 24-32.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Vertessy, R.A. and Ruijter, J. (2005). Runoff and sediment generation on bench-terraced hillsides: Measurements and up-scaling of a field-based model. Hydrological Processes 19, 1667-1685.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Meesters, A.G.C.A., Schellekens, J. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). A two-parameter rainfall depth-intensity distribution applied to runoff and erosion modelling. Journal of Hydrology 300, 155-177.
Eugster, W., Burkard, R., Holwerda, F., Scatena, F.N. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2006). Characteristics of fog and fog-water fluxes in a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 139, 288-306.
Holwerda, F., Scatena, F.N. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2006a). Throughfall in a Puerto Rican lower montane rain forest: A comparison of sampling strategies. Journal of Hydrology 327, 592-602.
Holwerda, F., Burkard, R., Eugster, W.E., Scatena, F.N., Meesters, A.G.C.A. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2006b). Estimating fog deposition at a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest site: Comparison of the water budget and eddy covariance methods. Hydrological Processes 20, 2669-2692.
Mulligan, M., Frumau, K.F.A. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2006). Falling at the first hurdle: Spatial rainfall variability and the problem of closing catchment water budgets in tropical montane environments. In S.R. Liu, G. Sun, and P.S. Sun (Editors), Forest and Water in a Changing Environment. IUFRO, Vienna and Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing; pp. 114-117.
Van der Molen, M.K., Dolman, A.J., Waterloo, M.J. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2006). Climate is affected more by maritime than by continental land use change: a multiple-scale analysis. Global and Planetary Change 54, 128-149.
Koehler, L., Tobón, C., Frumau, K.F.A. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2007). Biomass and water dynamics of epiphytes in old-growth and secondary montane cloud forests in Costa Rica. Plant Ecology 193, 171-184.
Rijsdijk, A., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Kukuh Sutoto, C. (2007a). Production of runoff and sediment by rural roads, trails and settlements in the Upper Konto catchment, East Java, Indonesia. Geomorphology 87, 28-37.
Rijsdijk, A., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Prins, Th.M. (2007b). Sediment contributions from tributary gullies, riparian mass wasting and bank erosion in the Upper Konto River, East Java, Indonesia. Geomorphology 87, 38-52.
Vernimmen, R.R.E., Bruijnzeel L.A., Romdoni, D. and Proctor, J. (2007a). Rainfall interception in three contrasting rain forest types in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Journal of Hydrology 340, 217-232.
Vernimmen, R.R.E, Verhoef, H.A., Verstraten, J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Klomp, N., Zoomer, R.H. and Wartenberg, P.E. (2007b). Nitrogen mineralization and denitrification potential in contrasting lowland rain forest types in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39, 2992-3003.
Waterloo, M.J., Schellekens, J., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Rawaqa, T.T. (2007). Changes in catchment runoff after harvesting and burning of a Pinus caribaea plantation in Viti Levu, Fiji. Forest Ecology and Management 251, 31-44.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Van Noordwijk, M., Calder, I.R., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Schellekens, J. and Chappell, N. (2008). Forest-flood relation still tenuous - comment on 'Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world' by J.C.A. Bradshaw, N.S. Sodi, K.S.-H. Peh and B.W. Brook. Global Change Biology 15, 110-115.
Beck, H.E., De Jeu, R.A.M., Schellekens, J., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2009). Improving Curve-Number based storm runoff estimates using soil moisture proxies. IEEE 2, 250-259.
García-Santos, G., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Dolman, A.J. (2009). Modelling canopy conductance under wet and dry conditions in a subtropical cloud forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149, 1565-1572.
Keesstra, S.D., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Van Huissteden, J. (2009). Meso-scale catchment sediment budgets: Combining field surveys and modeling in the Dragonja catchment, SW Slovenia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 1547-1561.
Malmer, A., Murdiyarso, D., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Ilstedt, U. (2009). Carbon sequestration in tropical forests and water: A critical look at the basis for commonly used generalizations. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2406.2009.01984x.
Meesters, A.G.C.A., Dolman, A.J. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2009). Comment on 'Biotic pump of atmospheric moisture as driver of the hydrological cycle on land' by A.M. Makarieva and V.G. Gorshkov,Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. (2007). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 13, 1299-1305.
Bruijnzeel, L.A., Kappelle, M., Mulligan, M. and Scatena, F.N. (2010). Tropical montane cloud forests: State of knowledge and sustainability perspectives in a changing world. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 691-740.
Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Oord, A.L. and Scatena, F.N. (2010a). Fog interception in a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest: A wet-canopy water budget approach. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 282-292.
Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Muñoz-Villers, L.E., Equihua, M. and Asbjornsen, H. (2010b). Rainfall and cloud water interception in mature and secondary lower montane cloud forests of central Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Hydrology 384, 84-96.
Köhler, L., Hölscher, D., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Leuschner, C. (2010). Epiphyte biomass in Costa Rican old-growth and secondary montane rain forests and its hydrological significance. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 268-274.
Kumaran, S., Perumal, B., Davison, G., Ainuddin, A.N., Lee, M.S. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). Tropical montane cloud forests in Malaysia: Current state of knowledge. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 113-120.
Letts, M.G., Mulligan, M., Rincon-Romero, M.E. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). Environmental controls on lower montane cloud forest vegetation in south-western Colombia. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 465-478.
Mulligan, M., Jarvis, A., González, J. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). Using 'biosensors' to elucidate rates and mechanisms of cloud water interception by epiphytes, leaves, and branches in a sheltered Colombian cloud forest. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 249-260.
Oesker, M., Homeier, J., Dalitz, H. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). Spatial heterogeneity of throughfall quantity and quality in tropical montane forests in southern Ecuador. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; 393-401.
Peña-Arancibia, J., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Mulligan, M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). The role of climatic and terrain attributes in estimating baseflow recession in tropical catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14: 2193-2205. DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-2193-2010.
Roman, L., Scatena, F.N. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). Global and local variations in tropical montane cloud forest soils. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 77-89.
Scatena, F.N., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Bubb, P. and Das, S. (2010). Setting the stage. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 3-13.
Schrumpf. M., Lyaruu, H.V., Axmacher, J., Zech, W. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). Effects of forest disturbance and regeneration on net precipitation and soil water dynamics in tropical montane rain forest on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 491-501.
Tobón, C., Köhler, L., Frumau, K.F.A., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Burkard, R. and Schmid, S. (2010). Water dynamics of epiphytic vegetation in a lower montane cloud forest: Fog interception, storage and evaporation. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 261-267.
Tobón, C., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Frumau, K.F.A. and Calvo-Alvarado, J.C. (2010). Changes in soil physical properties alter conversion of tropical montane cloud forest to pasture in northern Costa Rica. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 502-515.
Tognetti, S., Aylward, B. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). Assessment needs to support the development of arrangements for Payments for Ecosystem Services from tropical montane cloud forests. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 671-685.
Van der Molen, M.K., Vugts, H.F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N., Pielke Sr., R.A. and Kroon, L.J. (2010). Meso-scale climate change due to lowland deforestation in the maritime tropics. In Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N. and Hamilton, L.S. (Editors), Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 527-537.
Beck, H., McVicar, T.R., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Schellekens, J., De Jeu, R.A.M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2011). Global evaluation of four AVHRR-NDVI data sets: Intercomparison and assessment against Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 115, 2547-2563.
Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Scatena, F.N. (2011). Preface: Hydrometeorology of tropical montane cloud forests. Hydrological Processes 25, 319-326. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7962.
Bruijnzeel, L.A., Mulligan, M. and Scatena, F.N. (2011). Hydrometeorology of tropical montane cloud forests: Emerging patterns. Hydrological Processes 25, 465-498. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7974.
Frumau KFA, Bruijnzeel LA, Tobón C. (2011a). Precipitation measurement and derivation of precipitation inclination in a windy mountainous area in northern Costa Rica. Scientific Briefing. Hydrological Processes 25, 499-509, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7860.
Frumau, K.F.A., Burkard, R., Schmid, S., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Tobón, C. and Calvo-Alvarado, J.C. (2011b). A comparison of the performance of three types of passive fog gauges under conditions of wind-driven fog and precipitation. Hydrological Processes 25, 374-384. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7884.
García-Santos, G. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2011). Rainfall, fog and throughfall dynamics in a sub-tropical ridge-top cloud forest, National Park of Garajonay (La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain). Hydrological Processes 25, 411-417. DOI: 10.102/hyp.7760.
Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Scatena, F.N. (2011). Comparison of passive fog gauges for determining fog duration and fog interception by a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest. Hydrological Processes 25, 367-373. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7641.
Muñoz-Villers, L.E., Holwerda, F., Gomez-Cardenas, M., Equihua, M., Asbjornsen, H., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Marin-Castro, B.E. and Tobón, C. (2011). Water balances of old-growth and regenerating montane cloud forests in central Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Hydrology 2011. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.01.062.
Schmid, S., Burkard, R., Frumau, K.F.A., Tobón, C., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Siegwolf, R. and Eugster, W. (2011). Using eddy covariance and stable isotope mass balance techniques to estimate fog water contributions to a Costa Rican cloud forest during the dry season. Hydrological Processes 25, 429-437. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7739.
Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Peña-Arancibia, J. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2011). Top-down analysis of collated streamflow data from heterogeneous catchments leads to underestimation of land cover influence. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussion 8, 4121-4150.
Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N., Vugts, H.F. and Meesters, A.G.C.A. (2012). Wet canopy evaporation from a Puerto Rican lower montane rain forest: The importance of realistically estimated aerodynamic conductance, Journal of Hydrology 414-415, 1-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.07.033.
Peña-Arancibia, J., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Guerschman, J.P., Mulligan, M., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and McVicar, T.R. (2012). Using multiple lines of evidence to evaluate the hydrological response to deforestation of large catchments in the dry tropics of Queensland, Australia. Journal of Hydrology 416-417, 60-71.
Ghimire C.P., Bruijnzeel L.A., Lubczynski M.W., Bonell M. (2012). Rainfall interception by natural and planted forests in the Middle Mountains of Central Nepal. Journal of Hydrology. DOI: 10.1016/j/jhydrol.2012.09.051.
Vernimmen R.R.E., Bruijnzeel L.A., Proctor J., Verhoef H.A., Klomp N. (2012). Does water stress, nutrient limitation, or H-toxicity explain the differential stature among Heath Forest types in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia? Biogeochemistry (online). DOI: 10.1007/s10533-012-9766-4.
Van Dijk A.I.J.M., Pena-Arancibia J., Bruijnzeel L.A.. (2012). Land cover and water yield: inference problems when comparing catchments with mixed land cover Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16, pp. 3461-3473. DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-3461-2012.
Ghimire C.P., Bruijnzeel L.A., Bonell M., Coles N., Lubczynski M.W., Gilmour D.A. (2013). The effect of sustained forest use on hillslope hydraulic conductivity in the Middle Mountains of Central Nepal. Ecohydrology, doi: 10.1002/eco.1367.
Holwerda F., Bruijnzeel L.A., Barradas V.L., Cervantes J. (2013). The water and energy exchange of a shaded coffee plantation in the lower montane cloud forest zone of central Veracruz, Mexico. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 173, 1-13.
Beck H.E., Bruijnzeel L.A., Van Dijk A.I.J.M., Scatena F.N., Schellekens J., McVicar T.R. (2013). The impact of forest regeneration on streamflow in 12 meso-scale humid tropical catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17, 2613-2635.
Ghimire C.P, Bonell M., Bruijnzeel L.A., Coles N.A., Lubczynski M.W. (2013). Reforesting severely degraded grassland in the Lesser Himalaya of Central Nepal: effects on soil hydraulic conductivity and overland flow production. Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, vol. 118, 1-18, doi: 10.1002/2013JF00288.
Alvarado-Barrientos M.S., Holwerda F., Asbjornsen H., Dawson T.E., Bruijnzeel L.A. (2013). Suppression of transpiration due to cloud immersion in a seasonally dry Mexican Weeping Pine plantation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (in press).
Beck H.E., Van Dijk A.I.J.M., Miralles D.G., De Jeu R.A.M., Bruijnzeel L.A., McVicar T.R., Schellekens J. (2013). Global patterns in baseflow index and recession as derived from 3166 small catchments. Water Resources Research 49, 1-21. doi: 10.1002/2013WR013918.

Documentary DVD

Wohlgroth, A. (direction), Kunz, D. (camera), Schmid, S. (script) & Bruijnzeel, L.A. (production) (2004). Mountains in the Mist. DVD documentary film (47 min) on the biodiversity and hydrological values of tropical montane cloud forest. Halsundbeinbruch Films, Zurich, Switzerland, and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

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