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)
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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