Cloud forest - Wikipedia
WEBA cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, formally described in the International Cloud Atlas (2017) as silvagenitus.
What Is A Cloud Forest? - WorldAtlas
WEBApr 16, 2021 · Cloud forests form an ecosystem characterized by dense forests and shorter trees, coupled with increased stem density and a lower diversity of woody plants. The trees here are generally shorter and their leaves become thicker, harder, and smaller as the altitude increases.
Cloud forest | Definition, Description, Ecology, Plants, Distribution ...
WEBCloud forest, vegetation of tropical mountainous regions in which rainfall is often heavy and condensation is persistent because of the cooling of moisture-laden air currents deflected upward by the mountains. A layer of clouds at the canopy level is …
Cloud Forest - Community Cloud Forest Conservation
WEBCloud forests are more common in the tropics. They are green, growing, glowing gardens of bromeliads, ferns, orchids, and mosses. They are steep slopes of laurel trees and ridges of majestic oaks. They are acidic bog like soils drenched with moisture.
Cloud Forest - U.S. National Park Service
WEBMay 18, 2021 · Each piece of the cloud forest is integral to its survival: the fog waters the plants, the trees shelter the chaparral shrubs, and the chaparral plants act as a nursery for the trees –they form a deep, moist, and shady leaf litter bed so that acorns and other seeds can sprout and grow.
Behind the Mist of the Tropical Andes: The Incredible and Essential ...
WEBFeb 18, 2021 · Cloud forests work similarly to dehumidifiers. They cool moisture from the air, forming liquid. This water runs downstream to replenish rivers and other lowland bodies of water that people depend on as a drinkable water source. Cloud forests can absorb more water than any other type of forest.
What Is a Cloud Forest? Definition, Destinations, and Destruction
WEBJun 11, 2024 · What Is a Cloud Forest? A cloud forest is found in mountainous areas in tropical climates. Lots of rainfall paired with the high elevations of anywhere between 3,000 and 8,000 feet generate clouds among the naturally occurring green canopy.
Forests that float in the clouds are drifting away - Nature
WEBMay 4, 2021 · Cloud forests around the world are threatened by development, wood collection and climate change. Credit: Stefano Paterna/Alamy. Remote habitats called tropical cloud forests, which cling to...
The forest that people forgot - Article - BBC
WEBCloud forests across the world, from the Philippines to Kenya, are rapidly being lost to timber extraction and logging, poaching and hunting, farming, fires and population growth.
Cloud forests: narrow bands of biodiversity filled with mist, fog …
WEBOct 26, 2020 · There are 736 known cloud forest sites across the planet, in a broad range of locations across 59 countries: from 500-meter (1640-foot) altitude hillsides on Pacific Islands to sites at 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) above sea …