The Forest In The Clouds
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The Forest In The Clouds
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Author : Sneed B. Collard III
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Release Date : 2013-11-14
The Forest In The Clouds written by Sneed B. Collard III and has been published by Charlesbridge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In many parts of the world, within a few hundred miles of the equator, there exists a mysterious environment called the rain forest. High up in the mountains of these areas lies an even more mysterious environment--the tropical cloud forest. The Forest in the Clouds explores the enchanting world of the Monte Verde cloud forest in Costa Rica. Discover the splendor and fragile beauty of a precarious ecosystem that receives up to 10 feet of rain and mist each year. Readers meet rare creatures unique to the cloud forest, home to over 300 different types of birds and countless insects. There are more than 500 species of butterflies alone. Learn about the many plants that thrive in the cloud forest, such as gardens of epiphytes, which are plants that grow on other plants. The Forest in the Clouds will amaze and inspire young readers as it plainly teaches children about the importance of this delicate ecosystem to the balance of the earth. Michael Rothman vividly brings to life the plants and animals of the enchanting and ethereal cloud forest. This place, constantly in mist, is alive with color and light in his lush illustrations. A glossary of terms is provided in the back of the book along with a guide to further reading, a few helpful web sites, and addresses kids can write to in order to get further information about saving the cloud forests.
A Forest In The Clouds
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Author : John Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-02-06
A Forest In The Clouds written by John Fowler and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Nature categories.
For the first time, a riveting insider's account of the fascinating world of Dr. Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla camp, telling the often-shocking story of the unraveling of Fossey’s Rwandan facility alongside adventures tracking mountain gorillas over hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks, and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas. In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Drawn to the adventure and promise of learning the science of studying mountain gorillas amid the beauty of Central Africa’s cloud forest, Fowler soon learns the cold harsh realities of life inside Fossey’s enclave ten thousand feet up in the Virunga Volcanoes. Instead of the intrepid scientist he had admired in the pages of National Geographic, Fowler finds a chain-smoking, hard-drinking woman bullying her staff into submission. While pressures mount from powers beyond Karisoke in an effort to extricate Fossey from her domain of thirteen years, she brings new students in to serve her most pressing need—to hang on to the remote research camp that has become her mountain home. Increasingly bizarre behavior has targeted Fossey for extrication by an ever-growing group of detractors—from conservation and research organizations to the Rwandan government. Amid the turmoil, Fowler must abandon his own research assignments to assuage the troubled Fossey as she orders him on illegal treks across the border into Zaire, over volcanoes, in search of missing gorillas, and to serve as surrogate parent to an orphaned baby ape in preparation for its traumatic re-introduction into a wild gorilla group. This riveting story is the only first-person account from inside Dian Fossey’s beleaguered camp. Fowler must come to grips with his own aspirations, career objectives, and disappointments as he develops the physical endurance to keep up with mountain gorillas over volcanic terrain in icy downpours above ten thousand feet, only to be affronted by the frightening charges of indignant giant silverbacks or to be treed by aggressive forest buffalos. Back in camp, he must nurture the sensitivity and patience needed for the demands of rehabilitating an orphaned baby gorilla. A Forest in the Clouds takes the armchair adventurer on a journey into an extraordinary world that now only exists in the memories of the very few who knew it.
Cloud Forests In The Humid Tropics
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Author : Thomas Stadtmüller
language : en
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Release Date : 1987
Cloud Forests In The Humid Tropics written by Thomas Stadtmüller and has been published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Forest ecology categories.
The Road To El Cielo
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Author : Fred Webster
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
The Road To El Cielo written by Fred Webster and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Nature categories.
Hidden high in the Sierra de Guatemala mountain range of northeastern Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas is the northernmost tropical cloud forest of the Western Hemisphere. Within its humid oak-sweetgum woodlands, tropical and temperate species of plants and animals mingle in rare diversity, creating a mecca for birders and other naturalists. Fred and Marie Webster first visited Rancho del Cielo, cloud forest home of Canadian immigrant Frank Harrison, in 1964, drawn by the opportunity to see such exotic birds as tinamous, trogons, motmots, and woodcreepers only 500 miles from their Austin, Texas, home. In this book, they recount their many adventures as researchers and tour leaders from their base at Rancho del Cielo, interweaving their reminiscences with a history of the region and of the struggle by friends from both sides of the border to have some 360,000 acres of the mountain declared an area protected from exploitation—El Cielo Biosphere Reserve. Their firsthand reporting, enlivened with vivid tales of the people, land, and birds of El Cielo, adds an engagingly personal chapter to the story of conservation in Mexico.
The Cloud Forest
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Author : Peter Matthiessen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-06-30
The Cloud Forest written by Peter Matthiessen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-30 with Travel categories.
Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and vast skies of Patagonia. The result is an incisive and marvellously well-observed journal by a born writer and naturalist, a voyage of exploration among the people, places and fading wildlife of this most exotic and mysterious of continents.
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
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Author : Lawrence S. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests written by Lawrence S. Hamilton and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
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.
King Of The Cloud Forests
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Author : Michael Morpurgo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09-14
King Of The Cloud Forests written by Michael Morpurgo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-14 with categories.
A heart-racing tale of courage, loss, friendship and family. From the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. Escaping from China as the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung embark on a perilous journey across the Himalayas. When battling the hostile environments of the mountains, and finding himself alone in an unfamiliar world, Ashley's courage is put to the test. And a mysterious and terrifying encounter at the hands of an unknown tribe might just change everything. King of the Cloud Forests is a much loved story of bravery and compassion in the face of war and loss, from the author of War Horse. Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. Look out for Morpurgo's other war fiction including War Horse, Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya and An Eagle in the Snow.
The Andean Cloud Forest
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Author : Randall W. Myster
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-12
The Andean Cloud Forest written by Randall W. Myster and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-12 with Science categories.
A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been published. ACF are high biodiversity ecosystems in the Neotropics with a large proportion of endemic species, and are important for the hydrology of entire regions. They provide water for large parts of the Amazon basin, for example. Here I take advantage of my many years working in ACF in Ecuador, to edit this book that contains the following sections: (1) ACF over space and time, (2) Hydrology, (3) Light and the Carbon cycle, (4) Soil, litter, fungi and nutrient cycling, (5) Plants, (6) Animals, and (7) Human impacts and management. Under this premise, international experts contributed chapters that consist of reviews of what is known about their topic, of what research they have done, and of what needs to be done in the future. This work is suitable for graduate students, professors, scientists, and researcher-oriented managers.
The Cloud Forest
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Author : Gail Bornfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-19
The Cloud Forest written by Gail Bornfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-19 with categories.
The Cloud Forest is set in Costa Rica where clouds dance on treetops and rest on volcanoes. Plants and insects snuggle together in trees which become their homes.Marcos wakes to the bellowing of the howler monkeys and songs of passing birds. The forests have been cut. Birds and animals are becoming extinct. What can be done to save them? Can a group of kids help? Will the volcano erupt?
The Cloud Forest Color
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Author : Gail Bornfield
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-10-20
The Cloud Forest Color written by Gail Bornfield and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-20 with categories.
The Cloud Forest is set in Costa Rica where clouds dance on treetops and rest on volcanoes. Plants and insects snuggle together in trees which become their homes. Marcos wakes to the bellowing of the howler monkeys and songs of passing birds. The forests have been cut. Birds and animals are becoming extinct. What can be done to save them? Can a group of kids help? Will the volcano erupt?