The frequent occurrence of radiation fog appears to play an important role in the hydrological cycle of the tropical rainforest in Xishuangbanna. The fog drip, as compared with the other waters, was consistently more enriched, and yielded a higher value. Radiation fog appears to be produced mainly through evaporation from a pond, river, and soil plus forest evapotranspiration, especially during the dry season.
With the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No.30570308), Dr. Liu Wenjie and his colleagues carried out a 3-year stable isotopic analysis by collecting fog drip, rainfall, throughfall, stemflow, stream water, river water, pond water and soil water at the rainforest site in Xishuangbanna. Related research achievements with the title of “Using stable isotopes to determine sources of fog drip in a tropical seasonal rain forest of Xishuangbanna, SW China” has been recently published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 143 (1-2):80-91.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology is an international journal for the publication of original articles and reviews on the inter-relationship between meteorology and the fields of plant, animal and soil sciences, ecology, and biogeochemistry. The Journal has an ISI Impact Factor of 2.461 in the year of 2005.
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