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Overview

Delphis F. Levia is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, ecology, atmospheric science, and plant science.

The main topics of Levia's research focus on hydrology and watershed management studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, tree-ring climate responses, forest ecology and management, and atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Levia has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Advancing ecohydrology in the 21st century: A convergence of opportunities, 2020, Ecohydrology
  • Towards optimized runoff reduction by urban tree cover: A review of key physical tree traits, site conditions, and management strategies, 2023, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Rainfall partitioning by vegetation in China: A quantitative synthesis, 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • Assessing the efficacy of eDNA metabarcoding for measuring microbial biodiversity within forest ecosystems, 2021, Scientific Reports

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Levia's research, with frequent coauthors including Kazuki Nanko, S. Iida, Pilar Llorens, Darryl E. Carlyle-Moses, and Gabriel G. Katul.

Levia's publications are often featured in journals such as the Journal of Hydrology, Ecohydrology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Hydrological Processes.

In addition to journal articles, Levia has contributed to book publications, with one notable work published by Springer Nature titled Forest-Water Interactions in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A review and evaluation of stemflow literature in the hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles of forested and agricultural ecosystems

    Delphis F Levia;Ethan E Frost

  • Soil moisture: A central and unifying theme in physical geography:

    David R. Legates;Rezaul Mahmood;Delphis F. Levia;Tracy L. DeLiberty

  • Variability of throughfall volume and solute inputs in wooded ecosystems

    Delphis F. Levia;Ethan E. Frost

  • A review of stemflow generation dynamics and stemflow-environment interactions in forests and shrublands

    Delphis F. Levia;Sonja Germer

  • Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle

    Delphis F. Levia;Irena F. Creed;David M. Hannah;Kazuki Nanko

  • Dissolved organic matter (DOM) concentration and quality in a forested mid-Atlantic watershed, USA

    Shreeram Inamdar;Nina Finger;Shatrughan Singh;Myron Mitchell

  • Interspecific variation of bark water storage capacity of three deciduous tree species in relation to stemflow yield and solute flux to forest soils

    D.F. Levia;S.R. Herwitz

  • Fluorescence characteristics and sources of dissolved organic matter for stream water during storm events in a forested mid‐Atlantic watershed

    Shreeram Inamdar;Shatrughan Singh;Sudarshan Dutta;Delphis Levia

  • High-frequency dissolved organic carbon and nitrate measurements reveal differences in storm hysteresis and loading in relation to land cover and seasonality

    M. C. H. Vaughan;W. B. Bowden;J. B. Shanley;A. Vermilyea

  • Recruitment of three non-native invasive plants into a fragmented forest in southern Illinois

    Emily D Yates;Delphis F Levia;Carol L Williams

  • Temporal variability of stemflow volume in a beech-yellow poplar forest in relation to tree species and size

    D.F. Levia;J.T. Van Stan;S.M. Mage;P.W. Kelley-Hauske

  • Throughfall and Stemflow in Wooded Ecosystems

    Delphis F. Levia;Richard F. Keim;Darryl E. Carlyle-Moses;Ethan E. Frost

  • Throughfall drop size distributions: a review and prospectus for future research

    Delphis F. Levia;Sean A. Hudson;Pilar Llorens;Kazuki Nanko

  • Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry

    Delphis F. Levia;Darryl Carlyle-Moses;Tadashi Tanaka

  • Physical properties of water in relation to stemflow leachate dynamics: implications for nutrient cycling

    Delphis F Levia;Stanley R Herwitz

  • Inter‐ and intraspecific variation of stemflow production from Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. (American beech) and Liriodendron tulipifera L. (yellow poplar) in relation to bark microrelief in the eastern United States

    J. Toland Van Stan;Delphis F. Levia

  • Expressing stemflow commensurate with its ecohydrological importance

    Darryl E. Carlyle-Moses;Shin'ichi Iida;Sonja Germer;Pilar Llorens

  • Effects of wind-driven rainfall on stemflow generation between codominant tree species with differing crown characteristics

    John T. Van Stan;Courtney M. Siegert;Delphis F. Levia;Carrie E. Scheick

  • Differential stemflow yield from European beech saplings: the role of individual canopy structure metrics

    D. F. Levia;B. Michalzik;K. Näthe;S. Bischoff

  • Temporal variation in end‐member chemistry and its influence on runoff mixing patterns in a forested, Piedmont catchment

    Sherman Inamdar;Gurbir Dhillon;Shatrughan Singh;Sudarshan Dutta

  • Forest hydrology and biogeochemistry : synthesis of past research and future directions

    Delphis F Levia;David Carlyle-Moses;正 田中

  • Seasonal and meteorological effects on differential stemflow funneling ratios for two deciduous tree species

    C.M. Siegert;D.F. Levia

Frequent Co-Authors

Pilar Llorens
Pilar Llorens Spanish National Research Council
Beate Michalzik
Beate Michalzik Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Myron J. Mitchell
Myron J. Mitchell SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Shreeram Inamdar
Shreeram Inamdar University of Delaware
Jérôme Latron
Jérôme Latron Spanish National Research Council
Harsh P. Bais
Harsh P. Bais University of Delaware
Tomo'omi Kumagai
Tomo'omi Kumagai University of Tokyo
David R. Legates
David R. Legates University of Delaware
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association

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