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Mount Cameroon --- cloud forest --- conservation --- species diversity

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Cloud forest ecology --- Cloud forests --- Mountain ecology --- Cloud forest ecology. --- Cloud forests. --- Alpine ecology --- Alpine region ecology --- Alpine regions --- Mountains --- Upland ecology --- Tropical cloud forests --- Forests and forestry --- Rain forests --- Tropical cloud forest ecology --- Forest ecology --- Ecology

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This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on tropical montane cloud forests. 72 chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics including cloud forest distribution, climate, soils, biodiversity, hydrological processes, hydrochemistry and water quality, climate change impacts, and cloud forest conservation, management, and restoration. The final chapter presents a major synthesis by some of the world's leading cloud forest researchers, which summarizes our current knowledge and considers the sustainability of these forests in an ever-changing world. This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge concerning cloud forest occurrence and status, as well as the biological and hydrological value of these unique forests. The presentation is academic but with a firm practical emphasis. It will serve as a core reference for academic researchers and students of environmental science and ecology, as well as practitioners (natural resources management, forest conservation) and decision makers at local, national, and international levels.

Cloud forest conservation. --- Cloud forest ecology. --- Cloud forests. --- Mountain ecology --- Alpine ecology --- Alpine region ecology --- Alpine regions --- Mountains --- Upland ecology --- Cloud forests --- Tropical cloud forests --- Forests and forestry --- Rain forests --- Cloud forest ecology --- Tropical cloud forest ecology --- Forest ecology --- Forest conservation --- Ecology

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A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been published. ACF are high biodiversity ecosystems in the Neotropics with a large proportion of endemic species, and are important for the hydrology of entire regions. They provide water for large parts of the Amazon basin, for example. Here I take advantage of my many years working in ACF in Ecuador, to edit this book that contains the following sections: (1) ACF over space and time, (2) Hydrology, (3) Light and the Carbon cycle, (4) Soil, litter, fungi and nutrient cycling, (5) Plants, (6) Animals, and (7) Human impacts and management. Under this premise, international experts contributed chapters that consist of reviews of what is known about their topic, of what research they have done, and of what needs to be done in the future. This work is suitable for graduate students, professors, scientists, and researcher-oriented managers.

Ecosystems. --- Biodiversity. --- Plant ecology. --- Animal ecology. --- Plant Ecology. --- Animal Ecology. --- Animals --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Botany --- Plants --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Population biology --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic ecology --- Cloud forest ecology --- Cloud forests --- Biotic communities. --- Tropical cloud forest ecology --- Forest ecology --- Tropical cloud forests --- Forests and forestry --- Rain forests

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Based on work spanning a decade, this study of the Maquipucuna area on the western slopes of the Andes discusses the climate, vegetation, ecological relationships, and flora, and emphasizes the importance of the Maquipucuna area as a biological reserve. In addition to the checklist of the flora, which enumerates 1,650 species (including 228 species of pteridophytes and over 200 species of orchids), appendices give information on floristic composition of communities, distribution of epiphytes, and elevational ranges of families and genera. The illustrations include a map, landscapes, and characteristic species.

Botany -- Ecuador -- Bosque Protector Maquipucuna. --- Botany. --- Region Bosque Protector Maquipucuna (Ecuador). --- Plant Geography --- Botany --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Bosque Protector Maquipucuna (Ecuador) --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Maquipucuna Reserve (Ecuador) --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Floristic botany --- Botany -- Ecuador -- Bosque Protector Maquipucuna Region.. --- Bosque Protector Maquipucuna (Ecuador). --- Botany -- Ecuador -- Bosque Protector Maquipucuna Region. --- andes. --- biodiversity. --- botany. --- climate. --- cloud forest. --- conservation. --- ecology. --- ecuador. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- epiphytes. --- flora. --- forest. --- habitat. --- life sciences. --- maquipucuna. --- mountains. --- natural sciences. --- natural world. --- nature preserve. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- orchids. --- plant diversity. --- plant sciences. --- plant species. --- plants. --- pteridophytes. --- rainforest. --- science. --- wilderness. --- yumbos.