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Tropical montane cloud forests

Biomass diversity relations of epiphytic bryophytes on small Quercus copeyensis stems in a Costa Rican montane cloud forest

Biomass diversity relations of epiphytic bryophytes on small Quercus copeyensis stems in a Costa Rican montane cloud forest

... of tropical montane cloud forests, where they play an important role in rainfall interception (pócs 1980,Veneldaas and Van Ek ...within forests (Coxson ...in tropical ...

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Forest Biodiversity Assessment in Peruvian Andean Montane Cloud Forest

Forest Biodiversity Assessment in Peruvian Andean Montane Cloud Forest

... Abstract: Cloud forests are unusual and fragile habitats, being one of the least studied and least understood ecosystems. The tropical Andean dominion is considered one of the most si[r] ...

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Species richness, endemism and conservation of American tree ferns (Cyatheales)

Species richness, endemism and conservation of American tree ferns (Cyatheales)

... recognize tropical montane regions as areas with high levels of fern ...the tropical regions in America are characterized by species inhabiting montane communities, particularly the ...

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On the spatial distribution of woody plant species in a tropical montane cloud forest

On the spatial distribution of woody plant species in a tropical montane cloud forest

... the cloud forest, particularly the conversion of forest lands to pasture and agriculture (Hamilton 1995) and illegal logging for fuel extraction (Sarmiento 1993) or building materials (Aubad et ...of cloud ...

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Selección de árboles semilleros de Juglans pyriformis Liebm. en poblaciones naturales de Coatepec y Coacoatzintla, Veracruz

Selección de árboles semilleros de Juglans pyriformis Liebm. en poblaciones naturales de Coatepec y Coacoatzintla, Veracruz

... the Montane Cloud Forest in Coatepec and Coacoatzintla, Veracruz, a non-probabilistic quota sampling procedure was carried out in order to determine the phenotypic and dasometric characteristics of 20 trees ...

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Diversity and distribution of small terrestrial rodents along a disturbance gradient in montane Costa Rica

Diversity and distribution of small terrestrial rodents along a disturbance gradient in montane Costa Rica

... Abstract: A total of 389 rodent captures in five unequally disturbed habitats in a Costa Rican montane cloud forest corresponded to 185 individuals (seven species, two faroilies). Species richness was ...

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Estudio de los factores que condicionan, a escala local, la presencia de Epidendrum rhopalostele (Orchidaceae): Implicaciones para su conservación

Estudio de los factores que condicionan, a escala local, la presencia de Epidendrum rhopalostele (Orchidaceae): Implicaciones para su conservación

... The present study is among the first to analyze the fine spatial genetic structure of an epiphytic orchid population occurring in the cloud forest. In this population with 239 E. rhopalostele individuals located ...

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Historical relationships of the Mexican cloud forests: A preliminary vicariance model applying Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity to vascular plant taxa

Historical relationships of the Mexican cloud forests: A preliminary vicariance model applying Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity to vascular plant taxa

... Mexican cloud forests, situated between 600 and 3000 m of elevation, exhibit a remarkable high biotic ...Mexican cloud forests, in order to postulate a preliminary hypothesis of ...twenty-four ...

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Two new species of Phrynopus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the Bolivian cloud forests [Spanish]

Two new species of Phrynopus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the Bolivian cloud forests [Spanish]

... Abstract: We describe two new species of Phrynopus from cloud forests in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The new species are assigned to the P. peruanus group and are characterized by the presence of basal webbing, ...

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Biomasa en acahuales de tres unidades ecogeográficas del estado de Tabasco

Biomasa en acahuales de tres unidades ecogeográficas del estado de Tabasco

... In general, secondary forests are regarded as plants systems that lack value. As a result, the policies for their conservation evidence little interest on the part of the governmental agencies (Sánchez-Sánchez et ...

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First report on the density of the small-eared shrew, Cryptotis nigrescens (Eulipotypla: Soricidae) from Western Panam

First report on the density of the small-eared shrew, Cryptotis nigrescens (Eulipotypla: Soricidae) from Western Panam

... The fast pace at which montane landscapes change in southern Central America may cause the progressive diminution and eventual disappearance of the populations of C. nigrescens, reducing their overall genetic pool ...

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Effects of climate change on Andean biodiversity: a synthesis of studies published until 2015

Effects of climate change on Andean biodiversity: a synthesis of studies published until 2015

... Andean montane forest between 1800 and 2300 m of elevation in the Reserva San Francisco (3 ° 58 0 S, 79 ° 04 0 W) in southern ...humid montane forests cover continuous extents of the Andean ...

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Epiphyte diversity and biomass loads of canopy emergent trees in Chilean temperate rain forests: A neglected functional component

Epiphyte diversity and biomass loads of canopy emergent trees in Chilean temperate rain forests: A neglected functional component

... Andean montane forests of southern Chile, recording 18 vascular epiphyte species (Table ...rain forests yielded a total of 22 vascular epiphyte species and a higher diversity of ...temperate ...

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Estructura poblacional y flujo genético de Pinus pinaster Aiton en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica

Estructura poblacional y flujo genético de Pinus pinaster Aiton en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica

... on genetic processes in tropical and températe forests (ed. Seed dispersal and parentage of saplings in a Mediterranean pine {Pinus pinaster Ait.) using nuclear microsatellite markers.[r] ...

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Meanings, drivers, and motivations for community based conservation in Latin America

Meanings, drivers, and motivations for community based conservation in Latin America

... These economic incentives have been critical in providing monetary income to communities for preserving forests. This is clear in the case of PES programs that have become a political strategy to involve local ...

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NWCSAF GEO v2016 : new products, changes and improvements

NWCSAF GEO v2016 : new products, changes and improvements

... the cloud top microphysics for all pixels identified as cloudy in the satellite ...the cloud phase day and night (already available in the previous SW version MSG v2013) and effective radius, cloud ...

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Phytomedicinal potential of tropical cloudforest plants from Monteverde, Costa Rica

Phytomedicinal potential of tropical cloudforest plants from Monteverde, Costa Rica

... edaphically dry narrow ridges on the upper Pacific slope only 4 km from true lower mon- tane rain forests along the crest of the Cordillera (Clark et al. 2000, Haber 2000). Consequently the region is among the ...

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The Phyllomedusa perinesos group (Anura: Hylidae) is derived from a Miocene Amazonian Lineage

The Phyllomedusa perinesos group (Anura: Hylidae) is derived from a Miocene Amazonian Lineage

... The Phyllomedusa perinesos group is composed of four species that inhabit cloud forests in the eastern Andean slopes. We estimated the phylogenetic relationships among them and their closest relatives using ...

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... Rainfall and litter humidity are key factors in a complex interplay of processes. There is a negative relationship between litterfall and rainfall (Mosquera et al. 2007), witch at least in some tropical ...

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Remote sensing improves prediction of tropical montane speciesdiversity but performance differs among taxa

Remote sensing improves prediction of tropical montane speciesdiversity but performance differs among taxa

... species richness might occur in valleys where the canopy is higher and denser (= high leaf area index) representing higher soil nutri- ent availability compared to upper slopes and ridges. The low to moderate predictive ...

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