The eco-hydrological significance of fog in the eastern Sierra Madre, Central Veracruz, Mexico
Researcher: Friso Holwerda
Current affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Supervisors:
Collaborators:
- L.E. Muñoz-Villers - INECOL, Xalapa, Mexico
- M. Gomez-Cardenas - INIFAP, Oaxaca, Mexico
- H. Asbjornsen - formerly at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
- V.L. Barradas - UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
- M. Equihua - INECOL, Xalapa, Mexico
Duration: 2005-2007
Funding: The Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research WOTRO, grant no. W76-252); The National Institute of Ecology of Mexico (INE, grant no. INE/A1-064/2007)
Research questions
- How does the rainfall, fog, and evaporation climate vary at different elevations within the cloud belt?
- How do rainfall- and fog interception differ between mature and regenerating cloud forests?
- How does soil water uptake differ between fog and non-fog conditions and between mature and regenerating cloud forests?
- What are the water budgets of mature and regenerating cloud forest and what are the implications of converting cloud forest to shaded coffee?
Project publications
- Muñoz-Villers, L.E., Holwerda, F., Alvarado-Barrientos, M.S., Geissert, D., Marín-Castro, B.E., Gómez Tagle, A., McDonnell, J.J., Asbjornsen, H., Dawson, T.E. & Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2015). Efectos hidrológicos de la conversión del bosque de niebla en el centro de Veracruz, México. Bosque (accepted).
- Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Holwerda F, Geissert DF, Muñoz-Villers LE , Gotsch SG, Asbjornsen H & Dawson TE (2014). Nighttime transpiration in a seasonally dry tropical montane cloud forest environment. Trees, doi:10.1007/5010468-014-1111-1.
- Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Muñoz-Villers, L.E., Equihua, M. & Asbjornsen, H. (2010). Rainfall and cloud water interception in mature and secondary lower montane cloud forests of central Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Hydrology 384, 84-96.
- Muñoz-Villers, L.E., Holwerda, F., Gomez, M., Equihua, M., Asbjornsen, H., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Marin-Castro, B.E. & Tobón C. (2012). Water balances of old-growth and regenerating montane cloud forests in central Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Hydrology 462-463, 53-66.
- Holwerda, F., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Barradas, V.L. & Cervantes, J. (2013). The water and energy exchange of a shaded coffee plantation in the lower montane cloud forest zone of Central Veracruz, Mexico. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 173:1-13.
Related publications
- Goldsmith, G.R., Muñoz-Villers, L.E., Holwerda, F., McDonnell, J.J., Asbjornsen, H. & Dawson, T.E. (2011). Stable isotopes reveal linkages among ecohydrological processes in a seasonally dry tropical montane cloud forest. Ecohydrology 5(6): 779-790.
- Muñoz-Villers, L.E. & McDonnell, J.J (2012). Runoff generation in a steep, tropical montane cloud forest catchment on permeable volcanic substrate. Water Resources Research, 48(9), W09528.
- Muñoz-Villers, L.E. & McDonnell, J.J. (2013). Land use change effects on runoff generation in a humid tropical montane cloud forest region. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17: 3543-3560.
- Muñoz-Villers, L.E. & Lopez-Blanco, J. (2008). Land use/cover changes using Landsat TM/ETM images in a tropical and biodiverse mountainous area of central-eastern Mexico. International Journal of Remote Sensing 29, 71-93.
- Muñoz-Villers, L.E. (2008). Efecto del cambio en el uso de suelo sobre la dinámica hidrológica y calidad de agua en el trópico húmedo del centro de Veracruz, México. Doctoral dissertation, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.
