On the Need for a System of Cloud-forest Parks in Middle America and the Caribbean

1 January 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation

Vol. 5 (3) , 183-190
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900005890

Abstract

Tropical New World cloud-forest may best be described as the area of persistent cloud contact with tropical mountain vegetation. Cloud-forest exists in at least five life-zones, being characterized, generally speaking, by having high precipitation and humidity, dripping moisture, continuous cloud or mist cover, absence of frost, and trees laden with mosses and epiphytes.

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