This study was conducted in the National Forest of Ipanema, sustainable conservation in the municipality of Iperó-SP, in order to quantify and compare the net precipitation and interception of rain in three different forest stands, which are: Eucalyptus cloeziana, Pinus caribea var. hondurensis and Floresta Estacional Semidecidual. Therefore, we carried out the monitoring of throughfall, stemflow, interception and gross precipitation in each forest type, over the period November 2009 to May 2010. The study revealed the throughfall of 86.2%, 85.0% and 77.2%; intercept of 13.8%, 15.0% and 22.8% in relation to gross precipitation in Eucalyptus cloeziana, Pinus caribea var. hondurensis and Floresta Estacional Semidecidual, respectively. The influence of the forests in the distribution of precipitation showed significant difference only for the process of interception between Floresta Estacional Semidecidual and others.
Throughfall; Stemflow; Forest Hidrology
