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© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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Drought in forest understory ecosystems – a novel rainfall reduction experiment
K. F. Gimbel
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Chair of Hydrology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
K. Felsmann
Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research e.V. (ZALF), Leipniz, Germany
M. Baudis
Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
H. Puhlmann
Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany
A. Gessler
Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research e.V. (ZALF), Leipniz, Germany
Research Unit Forest dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürchestr. 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), 14195 Berlin, Germany
H. Bruelheide
Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig, Germany
Z. Kayler
Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research e.V. (ZALF), Leipniz, Germany
R. H. Ellerbrock
Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research e.V. (ZALF), Leipniz, Germany
A. Ulrich
Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research e.V. (ZALF), Leipniz, Germany
E. Welk
Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig, Germany
M. Weiler
Chair of Hydrology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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This paper introduces a novel rainfall reduction experiment to investigate drought effects on soil-forest-understory-ecosystems. An annual drought with a return period of 40 years was imposed, while other ecosystem variables (humidity, air & soil temperature) remained unaffected. The first year of drought showed considerable changes in soil moisture dynamics, which affected leaf stomatal conductance of understory species as well as evapotranspiration rates of the forest understory ecosystem.
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