ERORUN‐STAFOR : A collaborative observatory for the multidisciplinary study of the critical zone processes in a tropical volcanic watershed including a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

作者：Alix Toulier, Jean‐Lambert Join, Pierre Staménoff, Y. Benoît, Geneviève Lebeau, Maxime Gautier, Caroline Gorge, Éric Gayer, Emmanuel Cordier, Victor Kbidi, Guillaume Payen, Magali David, Sophie Ferreira, François Bonnardot, Julien Bonnier, Stéphane Martel, Jimmy Gonthier, Emilie Roulleau, Jean‐Pierre Cammas, Dominique Strasberg, Olivier Flores, Fabrice R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Claudine Ah‐Peng · 发表于：Hydrological Processes · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1002/hyp.15061 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Flood Risk Assessment and Management、Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies、Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Abstract Tropical volcanic islands are biodiversity hotspots where the Critical Zone (CZ) still remains poorly studied. In such steep topographic environments associated with extreme climatic events (cyclones), deployment and maintenance of monitoring equipment is highly challenging. While a few Critical Zone Observatories (CZOS) are located in tropical volcanic regions, none of them includes a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest (TMCF) at the watershed scale. We present here the dataset of the first observatory from the French network of critical zone observatories (OZCAR) located in an insular tropical and volcanic context, integrating a ‘Tropical Montane Cloud Forest’: The ERORUN‐STAFOR observatory. This collaborative observatory is located in the northern part of La Réunion island (Indian Ocean) within the 45.0 km 2 watershed of Rivière des Pluies (i.e., Rainfall river) which hosts the TMCF of Plaines des Fougères, one of the best preserved natural habitats in La Réunion Island. Since 2014, the ERORUN‐STAFOR monitoring in collaboration with local partners collected a multidisciplinary dataset with a constant improvement of the instrumentation over time. At the watershed scale and in its vicinity, the ERORUN‐STAFOR observatory includes 10 measurement stations covering the upstream, midstream and downstream part of the watershed. The stations record a total of 48 different variables through continuous (sensors) or periodic (sampling) monitoring. The dataset consists of continuous...