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Overview

L.A. Bruijnzeel is a researcher based at King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily lies within Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Soil Science, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research addresses several specialized topics, including:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Bruijnzeel's publication record highlights contributions across multiple journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Land Degradation and Development
  • Science
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Bruijnzeel include:

  • The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches, 2022, Science
  • Rising rainfall intensity induces spatially divergent hydrological changes within a large river basin, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Vapour pressure deficit and solar radiation are the major drivers of transpiration in montane tropical secondary forests in eastern Madagascar, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Near-surface water fluxes and their controls in a sloping heterogeneously layered volcanic soil beneath a supra-wet tropical montane cloud forest (NW Costa Rica), 2021, Hydrological Processes
  • Net precipitation, infiltration and overland flow production in three types of community-managed forest in the Mid-hills of East Central Nepal, 2022, Trees Forests and People

Frequent collaborators of L.A. Bruijnzeel include:

  • Jun Zhang
  • Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia
  • Fangyuan Hua
  • Paula Meli
  • Philip A. Martin

Best Publications

  • Hydrological functions of tropical forests: not seeing the soil for the trees?

    L.A. Bruijnzeel

  • Hydrology of moist tropical forests and effects of conversion : a state of knowledge review

    Leendert Adriaan Bruijnzeel

  • Rainfall intensity kinetic energy relationships: a critical literature appraisal

    A.I.J.M van Dijk;L.A Bruijnzeel;C.J Rosewell

  • CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND TROPICAL MONTANE FOREST PRODUCTIVITY: THE FOG HAS NOT LIFTED YET

    L. A. Bruijnzeel;E. J. Veneklaas

  • Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: What Do We Really Know?

    L. A. Bruijnzeel;J. Proctor

  • Hydrometeorology of tropical montane cloud forests: emerging patterns

    L. A. Bruijnzeel;Mark Mulligan;Frederick N. Scatena

  • Global patterns in base flow index and recession based on streamflow observations from 3394 catchments

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Diego G. Miralles;Richard A. M. de Jeu

  • Modelling rainfall interception by vegetation of variable density using an adapted analytical model. Part 1. Model description.

    A.I.J.M van Dijk;L.A Bruijnzeel

  • Tropical montane cloud forests : science for conservation and management

    Leendert Adriaan Bruijnzeel;F. N. Scatena;Lawrence S. Hamilton

  • Nutrient input–output budgets of tropical forest ecosystems: a review

    L. A. Bruijnzeel

  • The importance of epiphytes to total rainfall interception by a tropical montane rain forest in Costa Rica

    Dirk Hölscher;Lars Köhler;Albert I.J.M. van Dijk;L.A.(Sampurno) Bruijnzeel

  • Modelling rainfall interception by a lowland tropical rain forest in northeastern Puerto Rico

    J Schellekens;F.N Scatena;L.A Bruijnzeel;A.J Wickel

  • Highland-lowland interactions in the Ganges Brahmaputra river basin: a review of published literature.

    L. A. Bruijnzeel;C. N. Bremmer

  • Decision time for cloud forests

    L.A. Bruijnzeel;Lawrence S. Hamilton

  • Modelling rainfall interception by vegetation of variable density using an adapted analytical model. Part 2. Model validation for a tropical upland mixed cropping system

    A.I.J.M van Dijk;L.A Bruijnzeel

  • Hydrological observations in montane rain forests on Gunung Silam, Sabah, Malaysia, with special reference to the «Massenerhebung» effect

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  • Throughfall in a Puerto Rican lower montane rain forest: A comparison of sampling strategies

    F. Holwerda;F.N. Scatena;L.A. Bruijnzeel

  • Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Past, present and future hydrological research for integrated land and water management.

    Michael Bonell;Leendert Adriaan Bruijnzeel

  • Rainfall and cloud water interception in mature and secondary lower montane cloud forests of central Veracruz, Mexico

    F. Holwerda;L.A. Bruijnzeel;L.E. Muñoz-Villers;M. Equihua

  • Biomass and water storage dynamics of epiphytes in old-growth and secondary montane cloud forest stands in Costa Rica

    Lars Köhler;Conrado Tobón;Conrado Tobón;K. F. Arnoud Frumau;L. A. (Sampurno) Bruijnzeel

  • Evaporation from a tropical rain forest, Luquillo Experimental Forest, eastern Puerto Rico

    J. Schellekens;L. A. Bruijnzeel;F. N. Scatena;N. J. Bink

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick N. Scatena
Frederick N. Scatena University of Pennsylvania
Mark Mulligan
Mark Mulligan King's College London
Werner Eugster
Werner Eugster ETH Zurich
Heidi Asbjornsen
Heidi Asbjornsen University of New Hampshire
Ulrik Ilstedt
Ulrik Ilstedt Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jacobus M. Verstraten
Jacobus M. Verstraten University of Amsterdam
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hylke E. Beck
Hylke E. Beck King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Irena F. Creed
Irena F. Creed University of Toronto

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