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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Lawrence S. Hamilton

    1. Islands and Highlands Environmental Consultancy, Hinesburg, USA

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  2. James O. Juvik

    1. Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hilo, USA

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  3. F. N. Scatena

    1. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Río Piedras, USA

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 110)

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Puerto Rico Tropical Cloud Forest Symposium: Introduction and Workshop Synthesis

    • Lawrence S. Hamilton, James O. Juvik, F. N. Scatena
    Pages 1-18

  3. Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Conservation Status and Management Issues

    • Charles Doumenge, Don Gilmour, Manuel Ruíz Pérez, Jill Blockhus
    Pages 24-37

  4. Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: What Do We Really Know?

    • L. A. Bruijnzeel, J. Proctor
    Pages 38-78

  5. The Importance of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests for Endemic and Threatened Birds

    • Adrian J. Long
    Pages 79-106

  6. Ecology and Conservation of the Argentine Montane Forest

    • Alejandro Diego Brown
    Pages 107-115

  7. The Role of GIS in Evaluating Contour-Based Limits of Cloud Forest Reserves in Honduras

    • Richard Campanella
    Pages 116-124

  8. Reforestation with the Native Tree Alnus acuminata: Effects on Phytodiversity and Species Richness in an Upper Montane Rain Forest Area of Colombia

    • Jaime Cavelier
    Pages 125-137

  9. The Montane Cloud Forest in Southern Brazil

    • Daniel de Barcellos Falkenberg, Júlio César Voltolini
    Pages 138-149

  10. Cloud Forest, the Massenerhebung Effect, and Ultraviolet Insolation

    • J. R. Flenley
    Pages 150-155

  11. Some Low Elevation Fog Forests of Dry Environments: Applications to African Paleoenvironments

    • Alain Gioda, Jean Maley, Roberto Espejo Guasp, Andrés Acosta Baladón
    Pages 156-164

  12. Relationships Between Rainfall, Cloud-Water Interception, and Canopy Throughfall in a Hawaiian Montane Forest

    • James O. Juvik, Dennis Nullet
    Pages 165-182

  13. Biophysical Conditions of the Montane Cloud Forests of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

    • Kanehiro Kitayama
    Pages 183-197

  14. The Importance of Tropical Montane Cloud Forest for Preserving Vertebrate Endemism in Peru: The Río Abiseo National Park as a Case Study

    • Mariella Leo
    Pages 198-211

  15. Cloud Forests of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda: Research and Management Possibilities

    • Cosmo Lush
    Pages 212-222

  16. Conservation of Cloud Forests in Maui County (Maui, Moloka‘i, and Lana‘i), Hawaiian Islands

    • Arthur C. Medeiros, Lloyd L. Loope, Robert W. Hobdy
    Pages 223-233

  17. Montane Cloud Forest in the Tropical Pacific: Some Aspects of Their Floristics, Biogeography, Ecology, and Conservation

    • Mark D. Merlin, James O. Juvik
    Pages 234-253

  18. The Montane Cloud Forest and Its Gradational Changes in Southeast Asia

    • Masahiko Ohsawa
    Pages 254-265

  19. The Biological and Hydrological Values of the Mossy Forests in the Central Cordillera Mountains, Philippines

    • Samuel R. Penafiel
    Pages 266-273

  20. Montane Cloud Forests in Micronesia: Status and Future Management

    • Bill Raynor
    Pages 274-283
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About this book

Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf­ ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope montane and lowland forests. TMCFs are not hospitable environments for human occupation, and their remoteness (except in places near Andean high mountain settlements and in the Ethiopian Highlands) and difficult terrain have given them de facto protection. The ad­ jacent upper montane rain forests have indeed been under assault for timber, fuelwood, and for conversion to grazing and agriculture for many decades, even centuries in the Andes, but true cloud forest has only come under ex­ ploitation as these lower elevational resources have disappeared. They have also been "nibbled" at from above where there have been alpine grasslands under grazing pressure. Increasingly now, however, these cloud forest eco­ systems are being fragmented, reduced, and disturbed at an alarming rate. It is now becoming recognized that steps must be taken rapidly to increase our understanding of TMCF and to achieve their conservation, because: their water-capture function is extremely important to society; • their species endemism is high; they serve as refugia for endangered species being marginalized in these environments by increasingly transformed lower elevation ecosystems; they are relatively little studied; yet, their value to science is extremely high; they have low resilience to disturbance; vii viii Preface and many other reasons, which will be discussed subsequently in this publi­ cation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Islands and Highlands Environmental Consultancy, Hinesburg, USA

    Lawrence S. Hamilton

  • Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hilo, USA

    James O. Juvik

  • International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Río Piedras, USA

    F. N. Scatena

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

  • Editors: Lawrence S. Hamilton, James O. Juvik, F. N. Scatena

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2500-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7564-0Published: 22 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2500-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 407

  • Topics: Ecology, Plant Sciences, Agriculture, Forestry, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Nature Conservation

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