Efectos hidrológicos de la conversión del bosque de niebla en el centro de Veracruz, México

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dc.creatorLyssette Elena Muñoz-Villers
dc.creatorFriso Holwerda
dc.creatorMaría Susana Alvarado-Barrientos
dc.creatorDaniel Geissert
dc.creatorBeatriz Marín-Castro
dc.creatorAlberto Gómez-Tagle
dc.creatorJeffrey McDonnell
dc.creatorHeidi Asbjornsen
dc.creatorTodd Dawson
dc.creatorLeendert Adrian Bruijnzeel
dc.date2015
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:36:40Z
dc.descriptionThe provision and regulation of water flows in catchments is probably the most important ecosystem service of cloud forests; however, its hydrological behavior and impacts associated with forest conversion remain very poorly understood. The present study aimed at evaluating the hydrological effects of land use change for a cloud forest region on volcanic soils in Veracruz, Mexico. For this, micrometeorological, ecophysiological and hydrological measurements combined with stable isotope data were used. The findings showed higher annual water yields in pasture, as well as young and mature Pinus patula pine plantations due to lower evapotranspiration rates as compared to mature and secondary cloud forests. Total annual and seasonal flows were found very similar in both cloud forests, suggesting catchment hydrological functioning can be restored within 20 years of natural regeneration. Conversely, the pasture catchment showed higher annual streamflow (10 %), however 50 % on average lower baseflow at the end of the dry season, associated probably with more gentle slopes in combination with lower soil infiltration capacity. Further, it was shown that the conversion of cloud forest to pasture can promote major increases in overland flow in response to maximum rainfall events, despite the high permeability of the volcanic soils characterizing this environment. The ultimate effect of P. patula reforestation at catchment scale is still unknown, though higher rainfall infiltration rates, compared to pasture, suggest a soil hydrological recovery in the short to medium term.
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dc.identifier0304-8799
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=173143347007
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/420341
dc.languagees
dc.publisherUniversidad Austral de Chile
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1731
dc.rightsBosque
dc.sourceBosque (Chile) Num.3 Vol.36
dc.subjectAgrociencias
dc.titleEfectos hidrológicos de la conversión del bosque de niebla en el centro de Veracruz, México
dc.typeartículo científico

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