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Tropical montane cloud forests : science for conservation and management /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | International hydrology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- The 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.
- 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
- The 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
- The importance of cloud forest sites in the conservation of endemic and threatened species of the Albertine Rift / I. Owiunji and A.J. Plumptre
- The 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.
- 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
- The 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- The 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.