Vegetation growing concrete (VGC) is a kind of concrete composed of a sand-free porous
concrete skeleton and plant-growing substrate, which has a certain strength and is suitable …

During rainfall events, rain and throughfall drops impact on individual leaves exerting a force
that divides the drops into multiple droplets and produces momentary increases in the leaf …

During rainfall events, leaves in the canopy absorb kinetic energy from falling raindrops
causing the leaves to vibrate after each individual drop impact. Additionally, intercepted …

Leaf wettability, the affinity of a leaf surface to water droplets, affects the interactions
between leaves and external environments. This study aimed to determine the interspecific …

Wildfires pose significant threats to ecosystems, impacting soil properties and hydrological
dynamics. This study investigates the water storage capacity and wettability of ecosystem …

Wetlands play a crucial role in buffering the effects of climate change. At the same time, they
are one of the most endangered ecosystems on the globe. The knowledge of the water cycle …

Canopy interception significantly affects hydrological processes such as infiltration, runoff
and evapotranspiration. Research on grass canopy interception remains limited, and the …

Grassland plays a key role in human production and life, especially in the protection and
improvement of the natural environment, which cannot be replaced by other ecosystems …

Canopies shape net precipitation patterns, which are spatially heterogeneous and control
soil moisture response to rainfall. The vast majority of studies on canopy water fluxes were …

Canopy rainfall interception reduces the effectiveness of limited rainfall resources in arid
and semiarid regions. To clarify the effects of species composition and community vertical …