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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Cloud forests"”.
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The Physiological Ecology of Fraser FIr in Southern Appalachian Cloud Forests
… with red spruce, Picea rubens Sarg., these forests are receive greater than 1500 mm yr-1 precipitation, with as much as 50% of their annual precipitation due to cloud water deposition. Furthermore, these forests are immersed in clouds 30-40% of the time during the summer months. A sharp …
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Honduran cloud forests and coral reefs : exploring the process of transformative learning in adolescents
This research project was based on the experiences of 12 adolescents, aged 16 – 18, who participated in a two-week international scientific expedition to Honduras. Data was collected prior to, during and after the expedition via questionnaires, group interviews and semi-structured individual …
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Politics, infrastructure and non-human subjects: The Inka occupation of the Amaybamba cloud forests
… Conquest. This region lies among the dense cloud forests of the eastern Andes, and was situated at the northwestern edges of the Inka heartland centered around the former imperial capital of Cuzco. The main interest for the Inkas in the Amaybamba lay in its capacity to produce large amounts …
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The Importance of Fog for Carbon Gain, Water Balance, and Foliar Uptake in Southern Appalachian Cloud Forests
… the world are functionally linked to frequent cloud immersion including the coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest (USA), the Loma vegetation of Andean Peru, the coffee forests of Angola, and the relic spruce-fir communities of the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. In these climates cloud …
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Revised distributional estimates for the recently discovered olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), using museum and science records
… medium-sized carnivoran found in Northern Andean cloud forests. A preliminary distributional model was published along with the original description, and I here provide revised distributional estimates using updated locality records and more current ENM methods. I build ecological niche models in …
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Changing Human Impact On The Montane Forests Of The Eastern Andean Flank, Ecuador
The montane cloud forests of South America are some of the most biodiverse habitats in the world, whilst also being especially vulnerable to climate change and human disturbance. Today much of this landscape has been transformed into a mosaic of secondary forest and agricultural fields. This thesis …
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Assessing conservation status of remnant mammal populations in a Neotropical cloud forest
Neotropical cloud forests are some of the most biodiverse and yet threatened ecosystems. Terrestrial mammals play key roles delivering numerous ecosystem services within such systems including seed dispersal and nutrient cycling. Yet like the habitat in which they reside, some mammal species are …
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Climate control on plant performance across an Andean altitudinal gradient
… step change in climatic variables near putative 'cloud base' was not observed, contrasting with rapid changes in net primary productivity, soil properties, and bryophytic epiphyte biomass observed between 1500 and 1800 meters altitude. Vascular epiphyte species transplanted down slope across this …