Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tree ferns in a cloud forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo Stratus silvagenitus clouds in Uva Province, Sri Lanka. A 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 ...
Quercus lancifolia inhabits montane cloud forests between 500 and 2,400 meters elevation. It can be a dominant species where it occurs. [1]In Mexico it is found in the southern Sierra Madre Oriental of Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Puebla states, the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in Puebla and Oaxaca states, the Chiapas Highlands, and the Sierra Madre de Chiapas of Chiapas and adjacent Guatemala.
The cloud forest tree frog (Megastomatohyla nubicola) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] William Edward Duellman described the species in 1964; he placed it in the genus Hyla.
Acer skutchii, often called the cloud forest sugar maple, Guatemalan maple, Mexican sugar maple, Skutch maple, or álamo plateado is a species of flowering plant in the genus Acer, native to Mexico and Guatemala.
The cloud forest has many of the same tree species as the Bosque Micropholis Buchenavia forest, but growth is limited by adverse climate—heavy rain, strong winds, and almost constant cloud cover. [17] The dwarf or cloud forest developed in the higher peaks of the Central Cordillera is quite different in general appearance from the cloud ...
In the Marquesas Islands, Metrosideros collina is common on drier and more exposed montane forests, in cloud forests, and in shrub form in windswept mountaintop shrublands. [4] On Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Metrosideros collina is the dominant tree in cloud forests on the island's cloud-shrouded peaks and ridges above 400 metres elevation.
A green-crowned brilliant in the Monteverde Cloud Forest. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, [1] the Reserve ...
Carpinus tropicalis is a species of tree native to central and ... It is characteristic cloud forest tree, ... and pine forests, between 1,000 and 2,700 meters ...