Invasive species have the potential to alter hydrological processes by changing the local water balance. However, general patterns of how rainfall is partitioned into interception, throughfall and stemflow for invasive species worldwide have been seldom explored. We (a) describe the percentage of interception, throughfall and stemflow for invasive woody plant species; (b) analyse the influence of morphological attributes (i.e. life‐form, bark roughness, leaf type, leaf phenology and leaf area index) of invasive species on rainfall partitioning; and (c) compare the rainfall partitioning fluxes for co‐occurring invasive and native species, testing whether the variation in these fluxes depends on water availability of the study location.

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外来木本植物降雨分配的全球格局

入侵物种有可能通过改变当地的水平衡来改变水文过程。但是，很少探讨如何将降雨划分为全球入侵物种的拦截，穿透和茎流的一般模式。我们（a）描述了入侵木本植物物种的截留率，穿透率和茎流率；（b）分析入侵物种的形态属性（即生命形态，树皮粗糙度，叶片类型，叶片物候和叶片面积指数）对降雨分配的影响；（c）比较同时发生的入侵物种和本地物种的降雨分配通量，测试这些通量的变化是否取决于研究地点的水量。