Non-vascular vegetation has been shown to capture considerable quantities of rainfall, which may affect the hydrological cycle and climate at continental scales. However, direct measurements of rainfall interception by non-vascular vegetation are confined to the local scale, which makes extrapolation to the global effects difficult. Here we use a process-based numerical simulation model to show that non-vascular vegetation contributes substantially to global rainfall interception. Inferred average global water storage capacity including non-vascular vegetation was 2.7 mm, which is consistent with field observations and markedly exceeds the values used in land surface models, which average around 0.4 mm. Consequently, we find that the total ...
Not AvailableWater is the main driver of ecosystem productivity in most terrestrial ecosystems world...
Evaporation from wet canopies (E) can return up to half of incident rainfall back into the atmospher...
We live today on a human-dominated planet under unprecedented pressure on both land and water. The w...
Non-vascular vegetation has been shown to capture considerable quantities of rainfall, which may aff...
Interception of precipitation by forest canopies plays an important role in its partitioning to evap...
Rainfall interception loss remains one of the most uncertain fluxes in the global water balance, hin...
Surface-water availability, defined as precipitation minus evapotranspiration, can be affected by ch...
Spatiotemporal redistribution of incident rainfall in vegetated ecosystems results from the partitio...
Atmospheric moisture recycling effectively increases the amount of usable water over land as the wat...
Abstract Theory and evidence indicate that trees and other vegetation influence the atmospheric wate...
The canopy interception capacity is a small but key part of the surface hydrology, which affects the...
Forests are important to regulate water-climate relationships, providing important ecosystem service...
Interception is the part of the rainfall that is intercepted by the earth’s surface and which subseq...
The Budyko framework elegantly reduces the complex spatial patterns of actual evapotranspiration and...
Changes in rainfall amounts and patterns have been observed and are expected to continue in the near...
Not AvailableWater is the main driver of ecosystem productivity in most terrestrial ecosystems world...
Evaporation from wet canopies (E) can return up to half of incident rainfall back into the atmospher...
We live today on a human-dominated planet under unprecedented pressure on both land and water. The w...
Non-vascular vegetation has been shown to capture considerable quantities of rainfall, which may aff...
Interception of precipitation by forest canopies plays an important role in its partitioning to evap...
Rainfall interception loss remains one of the most uncertain fluxes in the global water balance, hin...
Surface-water availability, defined as precipitation minus evapotranspiration, can be affected by ch...
Spatiotemporal redistribution of incident rainfall in vegetated ecosystems results from the partitio...
Atmospheric moisture recycling effectively increases the amount of usable water over land as the wat...
Abstract Theory and evidence indicate that trees and other vegetation influence the atmospheric wate...
The canopy interception capacity is a small but key part of the surface hydrology, which affects the...
Forests are important to regulate water-climate relationships, providing important ecosystem service...
Interception is the part of the rainfall that is intercepted by the earth’s surface and which subseq...
The Budyko framework elegantly reduces the complex spatial patterns of actual evapotranspiration and...
Changes in rainfall amounts and patterns have been observed and are expected to continue in the near...
Not AvailableWater is the main driver of ecosystem productivity in most terrestrial ecosystems world...
Evaporation from wet canopies (E) can return up to half of incident rainfall back into the atmospher...
We live today on a human-dominated planet under unprecedented pressure on both land and water. The w...