How do you think a decrease in one of these inputs would affect the forest floor ecosystem?
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Forest floor interception is the part of the throughfall that is temporarily stored in the top layer of the forest floor and successively evaporated within a few hours or days during and after the rainfall event. The forest floor can consist of short vegetation (like grasses, mosses, bushes, and creeping vegetation), litter as described by Hoover and Lunt (1952) as the litter and fermentation (L and F) layer (i.e., leaves, twigs, and small branches), or bare soil. Although the latter seems to have an overlap with soil evaporation, we distinguish them by the fact that soil evaporation refers to the water that is stored in the root zone (Groen and Savenije, 2006).
Forest floor interception is the part of the throughfall that is temporarily stored in the top layer of the forest floor and successively evaporated within a few hours or days during and after the rainfall event. The forest floor can consist of short vegetation (like grasses, mosses, bushes, and creeping vegetation), litter as described by Hoover and Lunt (1952) as the litter and fermentation (L and F) layer (i.e., leaves, twigs, and small branches), or bare soil. Although the latter seems to have an overlap with soil evaporation, we distinguish them by the fact that soil evaporation refers to the water that is stored in the root zone (Groen and Savenije, 2006).In Table 2 some results are presented of previous work on forest floor interception.
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