Do Reductions in Dry Season Transpiration Allow Shallow Soil Water Uptake to Persist in a Tropical Lower Montane Cloud Forest?

Lyssette E Munoz Villers1, Friso Holwerda2, Maria Susana Alvarado-Barrientos3, Gregory R Goldsmith4, Daniel R. Geissert Kientz5, Teresa Margarita González Martínez2 and Todd E Dawson6, (1)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Mexico City, Mexico, (3)CONACyT - El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Mexico, (4)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, United States, (5)Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Red de Ecologia Funcional, Xalapa, Mexico, (6)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Mangement, Berkeley, CA, United States