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On the Need for a System of Cloud-forest Parks in Middle America and the Caribbean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Anne LaBastille  and
Douglas J. Pool
Anne LaBastille
Affiliation:
West of the Wind Publications, Inc., Big Moose, New York 13331, USA
Douglas J. Pool
Affiliation:
Commonwealth Department of Natural Resources, Apartado 5887, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00906.
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Tropical New World cloud-forest may best be described as the area of persistent cloud contact with tropical mountain vegetation. Cloud-forest exists in at least five life-zones, being characterized, generally speaking, by having high precipitation and humidity, dripping moisture, continuous cloud or mist cover, absence of frost, and trees laden with mosses and epiphytes.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1978 , pp. 183 - 190
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1978

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