Authorship
Leonardo Sáenz contributed on a regular basis to the analysis and interpretation of the datasets, he made special contributions to the analysis of topography and the integrated interpretation of the results in the context of cloud forest environments. He was involved in drafting various parts of the manuscript, across multiple revisions and countless suggestions to improve the quality of the document.
Alex Mayer participated in the conception and experimental design, he guided and coordinated the acquisition and interpretation of data for 4 years; he was key in drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content across numerus weekly meetings.
Lyssette E. Muñoz-Villers gave suggestions to collect streamflow data, including using salt dilution methods for the calibration of the stage discharge relationships, she also contributed to the definition and analysis of hydrologic metrics and storm indices. She was involved in revising the document critically for important intellectual content, particularly in terms of the dominant hydrologic processes of the cloud forest environments in Mexico.
Heidi Asbjornsen participated in the conception and experimental design; she was also involved in revising the manuscript and adding important intellectual content in terms of the comparison of forest ages and the definition of the novelty aspects of this work, she also contributed to better contextualize this work.
Z. Carter Berry participated in the experimental design and leaded the acquisition of data for 2 years, he also collected and shared data from the vegetation characteristics in the study region. Carter was involved in revising the document critically for important intellectual content, a special contribution was the drafting of the description of the land covers management.
Nathaniel Looker contributed in the acquisition and interpretation of soil data in the study region, he also participated in to the revision of the statistical methods. While writing the manuscript he provided critical feedback, especially in terms of the importance of forest regeneration processes in the study area and the effects of shaded coffee management on soil’s degradation.
Robert Manson participated in the conception and experimental design, he always provided support and ideas to navigate problems in the field; he was also involved in the revision of the manuscript and shared previous research publications conducted in the study region, one of his important intellectual contributions to this work was to link the results of this research to make recommendations to payments for environmental services programs.
León Rodrigo Gómez Aguilar participated in the field collection and post processing of rainfall and streamflow data.