Researchers identify nutrient enrichment driven by canopy rainfall redistribution
Precipitation deeply couples with nutrient cycling through its interactions with atmospheric deposition and canopy interception, which alters its own chemical properties. Throughfall and stemflow carry numerous elements into the soil, not only affecting the structure of soil microbial communities, individual plant survival, and plant community succession, but also regulating ecosystem structure and function. This constitutes a key ecological process that connects the atmosphere, phyllosphere, and rhizosphere.