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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Ecological Studies, 110
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Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud
forests (hereaf ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had
scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope
montane and lowland forests. TMCFs are not hospitable environments
for human occupation, and their remoteness (except in places near
Andean high mountain settlements and in the Ethiopian Highlands)
and difficult terrain have given them de facto protection. The ad
jacent upper montane rain forests have indeed been under assault
for timber, fuelwood, and for conversion to grazing and agriculture
for many decades, even centuries in the Andes, but true cloud
forest has only come under ex ploitation as these lower elevational
resources have disappeared. They have also been "nibbled" at from
above where there have been alpine grasslands under grazing
pressure. Increasingly now, however, these cloud forest eco systems
are being fragmented, reduced, and disturbed at an alarming rate.
It is now becoming recognized that steps must be taken rapidly to
increase our understanding of TMCF and to achieve their
conservation, because: their water-capture function is extremely
important to society; * their species endemism is high; they serve
as refugia for endangered species being marginalized in these
environments by increasingly transformed lower elevation
ecosystems; they are relatively little studied; yet, their value to
science is extremely high; they have low resilience to disturbance;
vii viii Preface and many other reasons, which will be discussed
subsequently in this publi cation.
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