Cloud forest

A cloud forest, also called a fog 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. (wiki)

Ecology

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Canaima National Park the cloud forest on the low tepui of Sierra de Lema is one of the most richly endemic areas (UNEP-WCMC)
Darien National Park
Galapagos Islands An unusual form of cloud forest is found between 1500m and 1700m on the mountains and volcanoes of the larger islands (UNEP-WCMC)
Garajonay dense dominant cloud forest of El Cedro (UNEP-WCMC)
Komodo National Park A quasi cloud-forest occurs above 500m on pinnacles (UNEP-WCMC)
Laurisilva of Madeira laurel forest (laurisilva), a type of mountain cloud forest (UNEP-WCMC)
Lorentz National Park The mid-montane zone which is known as cloud or mossy forest, is dominated by Nothofagus species and starts about 1,500m (UNEP-WCMC)
Machu Picchu The ruins rise just above cloud forest (UNEP-WCMC)
Manu National Park
Pitons of Reunion
Redwood Temperate cloud forest
Rio Abiseo National Park The cloud forest is considered a relic of the preglacial Huallaga Pleistocene refugium, and the reason for the area's high degree of diversity and endemism (UNEP-WCMC)
Sangay National Park
Te Wahipounamu Temperate cloud forest (Fiordland)
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley presence of one of the few areas of cloud forest that are located in Mexico (wiki)
Yakushima Temperate cloud forest

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