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Himalayas --- Nepal --- cloud forest --- human impact --- vegetation history

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Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Phytomorphology. Phytoanatomy --- Venezuela --- Cloud forest plants --- Leaves --- Climatic factors --- Anatomy. --- South America --- cloud forest --- leaf anatomy --- leaf morphology --- microclimate --- Anatomy

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The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the attention of biologists, conservationists and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 30 years. This provides information on this ecosystem and the biota.

Cloud forest ecology -- Costa Rica -- Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde. --- Natural history -- Costa Rica -- Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde. --- Nature conservation -- Costa Rica -- Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde. --- Natural history --- Cloud forest ecology --- Nature conservation --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Cloud forests --- Tropical cloud forest ecology --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Conservation --- Ecology --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Forest ecology --- Biology --- Science

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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.