Ecosystem Scale Soil Moisture Thresholds of Transpiration are Explained by Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Curves

Andrea Carminati1, Fabian Wankmüller2, Louis Delval3, Andrea Cerere3, Peter Lehmann4 and Mathieu Javaux5, (1)ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, D-USYS, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)UC Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, (4)ETH Zurich, Departement of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium