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An important feature of cloud forests is the tree crowns that intercept the wind-driven cloud moisture, part of which drips to the ground. This fog drip occurs when water droplets from the fog adhere to the needles or leaves of trees or other objects, coalesce into larger drops and then drop to the ground. [12]
In addition to the increased precipitation from orographic lift, cloud cover keeps the rate of water loss low due to minimal evapotranspiration. [8] High elevation forests are immersed in clouds on 65% of growth-season days, leading some sources to describe the temperate rainforest as a cloud forest. [8]
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 ...
Mt. Britton Tower Trail is a small 1.6-mile trail that starts off at El Yunque Trail and crosses a Sierra palm forest on the way to the top of Mount Britton, the 8th tallest peak in the forest. The summit is part of the cloud forest and it hosts a small lookout tower built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937 that on clear days offers ...
The predominant vegetation in the ecoregion is tropical montane cloud forest. The forests of the ecoregion show a great diversity in species composition and structure which vary with microclimate, elevation, and underlying soils. Epiphytes, including mosses, orchids, and ferns, are abundant.
Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. “It's most certainly not cloud seeding ...
The most diverse cloud forests found in Peru and Bolivia covers 500,000 km 2 (190,000 sq mi). Dry forests and woodlands are also found throughout the Tropical Andes ...
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