Agroforestry integrates woody perennials with arable crops, livestock, or fodder in the same
piece of land, promoting the more efficient utilization of resources as compared to …

Climate change scenarios predict an increased occurrence of droughts and heatwaves, as
well as extreme rainfall events in Central Europe. Alley cropping, which is the inclusion of …

Pyrophytic oak landscapes across the central and eastern United States are losing
dominance as shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive, or opportunistic tree species encroach into …

The amount and patterning of precipitation beneath vegetation is determined by throughfall
and stemflow. Throughfall is the portion of precipitation that falls through, or drips from, the …

The Earth's Critical Zone (CZ) is a thin living layer connecting atmosphere and geosphere,
including aquifers. Humans live in the CZ and benefit from the vital supporting services it …

Rainfall onto trees entrains dissolved organic matter (tree‐DOM). Tree‐DOM is then
exported down stems in stemflow and through leaves, branches, and gaps as throughfall …

Forest conversion to agriculture can induce the loss of hydrologic functions linked to
infiltration. Infiltration-friendly agroforestry land uses minimize this loss. Our assessment of …

The forest‐floor litter layer can retain substantial volumes of water, thus affecting evaporation
and soil‐moisture dynamics. However, litter layer wetting/drying dynamics are often …

Quantitative studies on the water and nutrient enrichment of throughfall and stemflow in the
Cerrado are lacking, especially among tree species. This work tested the hypothesis that the …

Water storage on tree crowns, trunks, the understory, and litter is, in many respects, one of
the simplest water balance components of vegetated ecosystems, but one that is rarely …