Monitoring and modelling hydrological fluxes in support of nutrient cycling studies in Amazonian rain forest ecosystems

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1: General introduction

2: General information on the research area: Middle Caqueta - Colombian amazonia

3: Gross rainfall and its partitioning into throughfall, stemflow and evaporation in four forest ecosystems in northwest amazonia

4: Modelling net rainfall in northwest amazonian forests with a physical based interception model

5: Calibration of tdr water content measurements in the forest floor and clay soils in northwest amazonian forests

5: Calibration of TDR water content measurements in the forest floor and clay soils in northwest amazonian forests

6: Forest floor water dynamics and root water uptake in four forest ecosystems in northwest amazonia

7: Monitoring and modelling soil water dynamics and root water uptake in four forest ecosystems in northwest amazonia

8: Integrated water balance of four forest ecosystems in northwest amazonia through a compartment approach

9: General conclusions

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