Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest
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Plants and Vegetation William A. Haber 3.1. Distribution and Diversity 3.1.1. Overview of the Vegetation The vegetation at Monte ...
Figure 3.1. Vriesia umbrosa and other epiphytes crowd the trunk of a tree In the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. Photo- graph ...
3.1.2. Vegetation Types The forest habitats in the Monteverde area fall into three general vegetation types: (1) seasonally dry ...
Table 3.1. Characteristics of the Holdridge life zones occurring at Monteverde. Life Zone Tropical moist forest (premontane tran ...
Los Cerritos, reaching to the Penas Blancas River at 300-500 m. The classification of this transition zone is based on its annua ...
Table 3.2. Common or characteristic tree species of the life zones in the Monteverde area. Tropical Moist Forest Anacardium ex ...
Lower Montane Rain Forest 6. Premontane Rain Forest 7. Tropical Wet Forest-Transition Alchornea latifolia Ardisia solomonii Bil ...
Table 3.3. Plants characteristic of edaphic and atmospheric associations in Monteverde. Rock Ridges Elfin Forest Swamp Forest Tr ...
Podocarpus monteverdeensis) within a highly broken canopy resulting from frequent wind storms (Table 3.3). The open structure of ...
Table 3.4. Trees and shrubs characteristic of secondary successional forest in Monteverde. Pacific Slope Cloud Forest Atlantic S ...
Table 3.5. Distinctive bark textures and trunk shapes of trees at Monteverde. Plant Name Family Bark and Trunk Characteristics A ...
phytes have thick, leathery, fleshy, or waxy leaves or swollen stems that retain water, such as those in Asteraceae (Neomirandea ...
Table 3.6. Summary data for tree species in permanent forest plots at Monteverde (see Haber, "Descriptions," p. 90). Site a. Est ...
Table 3.7. The distribution of species among the growth forms of native vascular plants at Monteverde. Growth Form Taxa Herb* Vi ...
Figure 3.7. Distribution of the number of species of shrubs and treelets by plant family in Monteverde. species of tree ferns al ...
lower stems sometimes die back, severing any connec- tion with the ground. Most species are found in the Araceae (32 species of ...
Figure 3.11. Mucuna urens seed pods with urticating hairs. Photograph by Barbara L Clauson. rather derive all of their moisture ...
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