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1 online resource (xxvii, 740 pages). |
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polychrome |
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International hydrology series
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International hydrology series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-740). |
| Summary |
"This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on tropical montane cloud forests. 74 chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics including cloud forest distribution, climate, soils, biodiversity, hydrological processes, hydrochemistry and water quality, climate change impacts, and cloud forest conservation, management, and restoration. The final chapter presents a major synthesis by some of the world's leading cloud forest researchers, which summarizes our current knowledge and considers the sustainability of these forests in an ever-changing world. This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge concerning cloud forest occurrence and status, as well as the biological and hydrological value of these unique forests. The presentation is academic but with a firm practical emphasis. It will serve as a core reference for academic researchers and students of environmental science and ecology, as well as practitioners (natural resources management, forest conservation) and decision makers at local, national, and international levels"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Part I General perspectives -- -- Setting the stage / F.N. Scatena, L.A. Bruijnzeel, P. Bubb, and S. Das -- Modeling the tropics-wide extent and distribution of cloud forest and cloud forest loss, with implications for conservation priority / M. Mulligan -- Climate of cloud forests / A. Jarvis and M. Mulligan -- Changes in mist immersion / P. Foster -- Ecology and ecophysiology of epiphytes in tropical montane cloud forests / P. Hietz -- Global and local variations in tropical montane cloud forest soils / L. Roman, F.N. Scatena, and L.A. Bruijnzeel -- Nutrient cycling and nutrient limitation in tropical montane cloud forests / J. Benner, P.M. Vitousek, and R. Ostertag -- What is the state of tropical montane cloud forest restoration? / T.M. Aide, M.C. Ruiz-Jaen, and H.R. Grau. |
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Part II Regional floristic and animal diversity -- Tropical montane cloud forests in Malaysia: current state of knowledge / S. Kumaran, B. Perumal, G. Davison, A.N. Ainuddin, M.S. Lee, and L.A. Bruijnzeel -- Montane cloud forests on remote islands of Oceania: the example of French Polynesia (South Pacific Ocean) / J.-Y. Meyer -- Tropical lowland cloud forest: a neglected forest type / S.R. Gradstein, A. Obregon, C. Gehrig, and J. Bendix -- Altitudinal zonation and diversity patterns in the forests of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania / A. Hemp -- Outstandingly speciose epiphytic flora of a single strangler fig (Ficus crassiuscula) in a Peruvian montane cloud forest / D.J. Catchpole and J.B. Kirkpatrick -- Comparative structure, pattern, and tree traits of laurel cloud forests in Anaga, northern Tenerife (Canary Islands) and in lauro-fagaceous forests of Central Japan / M. Ohsawa, T. Shumiya, I. Nitta, W. Wildpret, and M. del Arco -- Temperature and humidity as determinants of the transition from dry pine forest to humid cloud forests in the Bhutan Himalaya / P. Wangda and M. Ohsawa -- Importance of cloud forest sites in the conservation of endemic and threatened species of the Albertine Rift / I. Owiunji and A.J. Plumptre -- Mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) and Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus): two charismatic, large mammals in South American tropical montane cloud forests / J. Cavelier, D. Lizcano, E. Yerena, and C. Downer -- Cloud forests in East Africa as evolutionary motors for speciation processes of flightless Saltatoria species / C. Hemp -- Diversity of geometrid moths in two Neotropical rain forests / G. Brehm. |
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Part III Hydrometeorology of tropical montane cloud forest -- Hydrometeorological patterns in relation to montane forest types along an elevational gradient in the Yungas of Bolivia / M. Schawe, G. Gerold, K. Bach, and S.R. Gradstein -- Structure and dynamics of tropical montane cloud forests under contrasting biophysical conditions in north-western Costa Rica / A. Häger and A. Dohrenbusch -- Quantitative measures of immersion in cloud and the biogeography of cloud forests / R.O. Lawton, U.S. Nair, D. Ray, A. Regmi, J.A. Pounds, and R.M. Welch -- Understanding the role of fog in forest hydrology: stable isotopes as tools for determining input and partitioning of cloud water in montane forests / M. Scholl, W. Eugster, and R. Burkard -- Using stable isotopes to identify orographic precipitation events at Monteverde, Costa Rica / A.L. Rhodes, A.J. Guswa, and S.E. Newell -- Using "biosensors" to elucidate rates and mechanisms of cloud water interception by epiphytes, leaves, and branches in a sheltered Colombian cloud forest / . Mulligan, A. Jarvis, J. González, and L.A. Bruijnzeel -- Water dynamics of epiphytic vegetation in a lower montane cloud forest: fog interception, storage, and evaporation / C. Tobón, L. Köhler, K.F.A. Frumau, L.A. Bruijnzeel, R. Burkard, and S. Schmid -- Epiphyte biomass in Costa Rican old-growth and secondary montane rain forests and its hydrological significance / L. Köhler, D. Hölscher, L.A. Bruijnzeel, and C. Leuschner -- Comparison of passive fog gages for determining fog duration and fog interception by a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest / F. Holwerda, L.A. Bruijnzeel, and F.N. Scatena -- Fog interception in a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest: a wet-canopy water budget approach / F. Holwerda, L.A. Bruijnzeel, A.L. Oord, and F.N. Scatena -- Fog gage performance under conditions of fog and wind-driven rain / K.F.A. Frumau, R. Burkard, S. Schmid, L.A. Bruijnzeel, C. Tobón, and J.C. Calvo-Alvarado -- Wet-canopy water balance of a Costa Rican cloud forest during the dry season / S. Schmid, R. Burkard, K.F.A. Frumau, C. Tobón, L.A. Bruijnzeel, R. Siegwolf, and W. Eugster -- Measured and modeled rainfall interception in a lower montane forest, Ecuador / K. Fleischbein, W. Wilcke, R. Goller, C. Valarezo, W. Zech, and K. Knoblich -- Measuring cloud water interception in the Tambito forests of southern Colombia / J. González -- Relationships between rainfall, fog, and throughfall at a hill evergreen forest site in northern Thailand / N. Tanaka, K. Kuraji, C. Tantasirin, H. Takizawa, N. Tangtham, and M. Suzuki -- History of fog and cloud water interception research in Hawai'i / J.K. DeLay and T.W. Giambelluca -- Interpreting canopy water balance and fog screen observations: separating cloud water from wind-blown rainfall at two contrasting forest sites in Hawai'i / T.W. Giambelluca, J.K. DeLay, M.A. Nullet, M. Scholl, and S.B. Gingerich -- Historical background of fog water collection studies in the Canary Islands / M.V. Marzol-Jaán -- Effects of fog on climatic conditions at a sub-tropical montane cloud forest site in northern Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) / M.V. Marzol-Jaén, J. Sánchez-Megí+a, and G. García-Santos. |
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Part IV Nutrient dynamics in tropical montane cloud forests -- Spatial and temporal dynamics of atmospheric water and nutrient inputs in tropical mountain forests of southern Ecuador / R. Rollenbeck, J. Bendix, and P. Fabian -- Fog deposition and chemistry in a sub-tropical montane cloud forest in Taiwan / S.C. Chang, C.F. Yeh, M.J. Wu, Y.T. Chen, Y.J. Hsia, C.P. Wang, and J.T. Wu -- Fog and rain water chemistry in the seasonal tropical rain forest of Xishuangbanna, south-west China / W.J. Liu, H.M. Li, Y.P. Zhang, C.M. Wang, and F.R. Meng -- Spatial heterogeneity of throughfall quantity and quality in tropical montane forests in southern Ecuador / M. Oesker, J. Homeier, H. Dalitz, and L.A. Bruijnzeel -- Effect of topography on soil fertility and water flow in an Ecuadorian lower montane forest / W. Wilcke, J. Boy, R. Goller, K. Fleischbein, C. Valarezo, and W. Zech -- Human impacts on stream-water chemistry in a tropical montane cloud forest watershed, Monteverde, Costa Rica / A.L. Rhodes, A.J. Guswa, S. Dallas, E.M. Kim, S. Katchpole, and A. Pufall -- Is there evidence for limitations to nitrogen mineralization in upper montane tropical forests? / W.L. Silver, A.W. Thompson, D.J. Herman, and M.K. Firestone -- Fine root mass and fine root production in tropical moist forests as dependent on soil, climate, and elevation / D. Hertel and Ch. Leuschner. |
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Part V Cloud forest water use, photosynthesis, and effects of forest conversion -- Transpiration and microclimate of a tropical montane rain forest, southern Ecuador / T. Motzer, N. Munz, D. Anhuf, and M. Küppers -- Physiological variation in Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha across a range of habitats: from dry forests to cloud forests / L.S. Santiago, T.J. Jones, and G. Goldstein -- Environmental controls on photosynthetic rates of lower montane cloud forest vegetation in south-western Colombia / M.G. Letts, M. Mulligan, M.E. Rincón-Romero, and L.A. Bruijnzeel -- Comparative water budgets of a lower and an upper montane cloud forest in the Wet Tropics of northern Australia / D.L. McJannet, J.S. Wallace, and P. Reddell -- Effects of forest disturbance and regeneration on net precipitation and soil water dynamics in tropical montane rain forest on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania / M. Schrumpf, H.V.M. Lyaruu, J.C. Axmacher, W. Zech, and L.A. Bruijnzeel -- Changes in soil physical properties after conversion of tropical montane cloud forest to pasture in northern Costa Rica / C. Tobón, L.A. Bruijnzeel, K.F.A. Frumau, and J.C. Calvo-Alvarado -- Hydrology and land-cover change in tropical montane environments: the impact of pattern on process / M. Mulligan, J. Rubiano, and M. Rincón-Romero. |
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Part VI Effects of climate variability and climate change -- Meso-scale climate change due to lowland deforestation in the maritime tropics / M.K. van der Molen, H.F. Vugts, L.A. Bruijnzeel, F.N. Scatena, R.A. Pielke Sr., and L.J.M. Kroon -- Impact of deforestation on orographic cloud formation in a complex tropical environment / U.S. Nair, D.K. Ray, R.O. Lawton, R.M. Welch, R.A. Pielke Sr., and J. Calvo-Alvarado -- Meso-scale climate change in the central mountain region of Veracruz State, Mexico / V.L. Barradas, J. Cervantes-Pérez, R. Ramos-Palacios, C. Puchet-Anyul, P. Vázquez-Rodríguez, and R. Granados-Ramirez -- Potential effects of global climate change on epiphytes in a tropical montane cloud forest: an experimental study from Monteverde, Costa Rica / N.M. Nadkarni -- Climatic change impacts on tropical montane cloud forests: fire as a major determinant in the upper zones of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania / A. Hemp -- Historical evidence of fire in tropical montane cloud forests in the Chimalapas region of Oaxaca, southern Mexico / Y. Wård, A. Malmer, and H. Asbjornsen -- Biennial variation in tree diameter growth during eight years in tropical montane cloud forests on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia / S. Aiba, M. Takyu, and K. Kitayama. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cloud forest conservation.
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Cloud forest conservation. |
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Cloud forest ecology.
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Cloud forest ecology. |
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Cloud forests.
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Cloud forests. |
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Mountain ecology -- Tropics.
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Mountain ecology. |
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Tropics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bruijnzeel, Leendert Adriaan.
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Scatena, F. N.
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Hamilton, Lawrence S., 1925-2016.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tropical montane cloud forests. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521760355 (DLC) 2010036467 (OCoLC)619125094 |
| ISBN |
9780521760355 (electronic book) |
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0521760356 (electronic book) |
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9780511933301 (electronic book) |
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0511933304 (electronic book) |
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9780511778384 (electronic book) |
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0511778384 (electronic book) |
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9780511928093 |
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0511928092 |
| Standard No. |
9786612976544 |
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