Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest
land and montane sites in terms of ambient air tem- perature, and transitional between the Caribbean and Pacific sides of Costa ...
Figure 2.4. Hourly mean instantaneous shortwave radiation (W/m^2 ) calculated for clear-sky conditions during 21 April p) and 21 ...
Figure 2.5. (left) Mean monthly temperature (°C) at 1460 m at Monteverde (•; mean ± mean monthly minimum and maximum values), Li ...
Cloud cover, however, may be greater at this time compared to other times of the year (Fig. 2.3). Ascending air masses at the IT ...
A larger network of collectors along the Continental Divide is necessary to estimate maximum amounts of cloud water and precipit ...
Figure 2.7. Geologic map of the southern Central American Region. nic arc associated with the subduction of the Cocos plate bene ...
with a shift in the volcanic axis to the east, farther from the Middle America Trench. Pleistocene (ca. 600,000 years ago) andes ...
Figure 2.8. Atlantic slope of the Continental Divide in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. Photograph by Stephen Ingram. Belo ...
low rates of evapotranspiration from the vegetation (Sec. 2.6), and impeded drainage. Permanent puddles 1—4 m in diameter are co ...
the larger slides that are conspicuous on quebrada walls and the flanks of ridges produce one of the major vegetation patterns i ...
(Swanston 1974), vegetation structure (Swanston 1969, 1970,1974), and human activities can also influence their likelihood. Thes ...
(1050 m), Laguna Poco Sol (760 m) in the lower Perms Blancas valley, and Laguna Cocoritos (500 m) at the mouth of the same valle ...
deposition of ash and other particles from volcanic eruptions periodically contribute to "new," unweath- ered parent material to ...
worts) contributes substantially to total litterfall in- puts to the forest floor (Nadkarni and Matelson 1992). Due to the high ...
water has typically infiltrated into the soil and moves laterally in the shallow subsurface layer. This relationship between the ...
Figure 2.12. Flow of water through the vegetation canopy and the soil in a tropical rain forest. in Monteverde is likely due to ...
duration. The same relationship appears to apply to tropical areas after forests have been logged. Wind-driven cloud water and p ...
Figure 2.13. Monteverde. A bulldozer cuts through heavily weathered bedrock to create a road to the San Luis valley below Photog ...
Table 2.2. Comparison of five precipitation events at two sites in the MCFP. Weather Windspeeda Conditions (m/s) Stratocumulus c ...
Table 2.3. Mean percentage of carbon and nitrogen contents, C:N ratios, and pH in arboreal and surface soils from selected monta ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf