Table 1.
Site characteristics of the different ages of forest plots (Mean ± SE, n = 3).
Fig 1.
Average monthly precipitation and temperature in the study area for the year 2013.
Fig 2.
Monthly changes of soil evaporation in different Eucalyptus plantations (the error bar represents the SD).
Fig 3.
Monthly changes of soil moisture (gravimetric %) in different Eucalyptus plantation forests (at 5 cm depth).
Fig 4.
Relationship between soil evaporation and climatic factors i.e. temperature (A), relative humidity (B), soil humidity (C) and precipitation (D).
Fig 5.
The calculated value of potential evapotranspiration compared with the measured value in the study area.
The calculated results based on our plot data by comparing with the measured results based on the historic meteorological data from the National Climate Center of China.
Fig 6.
Absolute (A) and relative values (B) of evapotranspiration in different Eucalyptus plantations.
Table 2.
Estimation of evapotranspiration in different Eucalyptus plantations (mm).
Fig 7.
Dynamics of average temperature and precipitation from 1953 to 2013 in the study area.