Re: When is a rain forest not a rain forest?

> sometimes we used to call these cloudforests, which may be
> something  we made up....
> 
> 
> hermine
> 
Actually, I've only ever heard the term cloud forest refer
to tropical montane wet forest types, where condensation
from mountain clouds is a more important source of moisture
than rainfall.  Monteverde, Costa Rica is the best-known
example of cloud forest.

Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large
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