Journal
FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.660662
Keywords
hydrology; precipitation; transpiration; evaporation; water uptake; biogeochemistry; bark; forest
Funding
- United States-NSF [EAR1954907]
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This perspective highlights the importance of bark-water interactions in advancing ecohydrological theory and practice, including across scales, ecosystem compartments, and major hydrologic states and fluxes in forests, while also touching upon the biogeochemical impacts on forest ecosystems.
To date, the perspective of forest ecohydrologists has heavily focused on leaf-water interactions - leaving the ecohydrological roles of bark under-studied, oversimplified, or omitted from the forest water cycle. Of course, the lack of study, oversimplification, or omission of processes is not inherently problematic to advancing ecohydrological theory or operational practice. Thus, this perspective outlines the relevance of bark-water interactions to advancing ecohydrological theory and practice: (i) across scales (by briefly examining the geography of bark); (ii) across ecosystem compartments (i.e., living and dead bark on canopies, stems, and in litter layers); and, thereby, (iii) across all major hydrologic states and fluxes in forests (providing estimates and contexts where available in the scant literature). The relevance of bark-water interactions to biogeochemical aspects of forest ecosystems is also highlighted, like canopy-soil nutrient exchanges and soil properties. We conclude that a broad ecohydrological perspective of bark-water interactions is currently merited.
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