Estimating Rainfall Interception Loss of Decomposed Floor in a Deciduous Forest Using Rainfall Simulation Experiments

Abstract

SForest floor is one of most distinctive features of forest ecosystem, which provides plants and soil microbes with nutrients, and controls hydrologic condition within the floor by intercepting water during a rainfall event and evaporates back into the atmosphere. In this study rainfall interception loss by decomposed forest floor of a deciduous forest has been experimentally estimated using rainfall simulation experiments. Litterdecomposing fungi were incubated on deciduous forest floor samples for the experiment purposes. On a deciduous floor, a 4.22 mm·kg . MannWhitney test showed that decomposing fungi on the forest floor influenced on rainfall interception capacity.