Rainfall interception in forests of the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines ejido, Pueblo Nuevo, Durango

The redistribution of rainfall was studied in two species of the Pinus genus in the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines ejido, Pueblo Nuevo, state of Durango, with the aim of evaluating incident rainfall, direct rainfall, stemflow, interception losses, pH values, and electrical conductivity for Pinus teocote and Pinus engelmannii. Twenty-six rainfall events were assessed in a 2 500 m plot, where hydrological properties were measured from June to December 2019. Results indicated an incident rainfall of 812.28 mm. Direct rainfall in P. engelmannii and P. teocote amounted to 84.93 and 83.15 %, respectively, with an average of 84 % of total rainfall. Stemflow amounted to 0.29 % for P. engelmannii and 0.33 % for P. teocote. Meanwhile, canopy interception losses were 16.52 % for P. teocote and 15 % for P. engelmannii. In the rainfall pH, the highest value compared to the incident rainfall was 7.0, for the stemflow of P. teocote it was 4.7 and for P. engelmannii it was 5.5; direct rainfall recorded 5.4 pH for both species. The electrical conductivity exhibited an increasing trend as it traveled through the tree crowns and stems; a value of 29.5 μS cm was obtained for the incident rainfall, 44.4 μS cm for the direct rainfall, and the stemflow registered higher values, with an average of 90.2 μS cm1 .