Water and energy budgets of rain forests along an elevation gradient under maritime tropical conditions
Researcher: Friso Holwerda
Current affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Supervisors:
Collaborators:
- W. Eugster - ETH Zurich, Switzrland
- R. Burkard - formerly University of Bern, Switzerland
- A.G.C.A. Meesters - VU University
Duration: 2000-2005
Funding: VU University Amsterdam, USDA Forest Service, USA
Research questions
- How do wet- and dry-canopy evaporation rates differ between various types of upland rain forest below and within the cloud belt on Puerto Rico?
- What causes the comparatively high rainfall interception rates of Puerto Rico's montane rain forest?
- What are the most effective ways of quantifying rainfall - and cloud water interception beneath and within the cloud belt, respectively?
Project publications
- Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Scatena, F.N., Vugts. H.F., 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 415-416, 1-15.
- Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., 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.
- Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Oord, A.L., Scatena, F.N. (2010). Fog interception in a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest: a wet-canopy water budget approach. In Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management, Bruijnzeel LA, Scatena FN, Hamilton LS. (eds). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK; 282-292.
- Holwerda, F., Burkard, R., Eugster, W.E., Scatena, F.N., Meesters, A.G.C.A., Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2006a). 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.
- Holwerda, F., Scatena, F.N., Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2006b). Throughfall in a Puerto Rican lower montane rain forest: a comparison of sampling strategies. Journal of Hydrology 327, 592-602.
- Eugster, W., Burkard, R., Holwerda, F., Scatena, F.N., 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. (2005). Water and energy budgets of rain forests along an elevation gradient under maritime tropical conditions. Doctoral dissertation, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL, 167 pp.
Selected related publications
- 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. pp. 181-184 in R.S. Schemenauer & H. Puxbaum (Editors), Second International Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada.
- Schellekens, J., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Wickel, A.J., Scatena, F.N., Silver, W.L. (1998). Interception of horizontal precipitation in the Luquillo Mountains, Eastern Puerto Rico. pp. 29-32 in R.S. Schemenauer & H.A. Bridgman (Editors). International Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada.
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