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Tree ferns in a cloud forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo Stratus silvagenitus clouds in Uva Province, Sri Lanka. A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, formally ...
Tropical montane forest at around 2,000 m in Malaysia. In the tropics, montane forests can consist of broadleaf forest in addition to coniferous forest. One example of a tropical montane forest is a cloud forest, which gains its moisture from clouds and fog.
Montane rain forests are found in cooler-climate mountainous areas. Those with elevations high enough to regularly encounter low-level cloud cover are known as cloud forests. [10] Flooded forests, including freshwater swamp forests and peat swamp forests. [11] Manigua a low, often impenetrable dense forest of tangled tropical shrub and small ...
The Borneo montane rain forests is an ecoregion on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. It includes montane tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests , also known as a cloud forests . The ecoregion is partly in East Malaysia ( Sabah and Sarawak states) and Indonesia ( Kalimantan ).
These forests are cooler than lowland forests and therefore they have ideal conditions for growth of cloud forests. These forests classifications tropical sub montane forest, tropical sub-montane and tropical upper montane. [3] Half of Sri Lanka's endemic flowering plants and 51 percent of the endemic vertebrates are restricted to these forests ...
The montane forest and upper montane forest are cloud forests, where mist and cloud cover can contribute up to 100% additional vertical precipitation. Mean temperature in the montane and upper montane belts is 11.7 °C, with a mean maximum of 21.8 C and a mean minimum of 8.8 C. [3]
The Chiapas montane forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in southern Mexico and extending into western Guatemala. It includes the montane tropical forests on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Chiapas Highlands .
The natural vegetation of the islands was mostly tropical rain forest, with smaller areas of savanna and scrub, and mangroves along the shore. Atoll forests and coastal strand vegetation are found on the atolls. The principal forest types on the volcanic islands include lowland forest, montane forest, and cloud forest. Cloud forests occur as ...