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an area of woodland, historically, one owned by the sovereign and set apart as a hunting ground with its own laws and officers.

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Bird activity and seed dispersal of a montane forest tree (Dunalia arborescens) in Jamaica.

SEED DISPERSAL, SEED PREDATION, AND SEEDLING RECRUITMENT OF A NEOTROPICAL MONTANE TREE

The Cyatheaceae live in the lower and middle strata of the cloud forest, where they occupy a significant percentage of the basal (foundation) area, though they also occur in other types of lowland and montane forest.

The montane equatorial cloud forests

In the meanwhile, more than a thousand plant species have been provisionally identified, with about 350 growing in the high elevation grasslands and the remainder in the montane forests.

Nature on the Rebound

In 1992, Colombian drug dealers converted 11,000 hectares of pristine montane forest to poppy fields, reports biologist Jaime Cavelier of the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia.

Forests in the clouds face stormy future

Fragmentation, disturbance and tree diversity conservation in tropical montane forests.

Composicion floristica, estructura y biomasa de los bosques de pino-encino en la reserva Santa Rosa, Tisey, Esteli, Nicaragua

Anthropogenic edges, treefall gaps, and fruit-frugivore interactions in a Neotropical Montane Forest.

Edge effect on post-dispersal artificial seed predation in the southeastern Amazonia, Brazil/Efeito de borda na predacao de sementes artificiais pos-dispersao no sudeste da Amazonia, Brasil

With the aim to characterize and compare the bat fauna associated with highland areas of the Atlantic Forest of southern Minas Gerais, we document species richness and species composition, as well as structure of bat assemblages in cloud forest, montane forest and campo de altitude at Chapada do Abanador, a priority area for biodiversity conservation in the state.

Assembleia de morcegos em uma area de elevada altitude na Floresta Atlantica do sudeste do Brasil

Together, we pushed up and over a vast ridgeline, thick with montane forest that dripped with lichen, and down into the isolated lands of the southern Yali tribes.

The world's greatest walkers: intrigued by tales of long-distance trade routes through the jungles of West Papua, Will Millard set out on a gruelling journey to see if these mysterious paths still existed

Ecology of acorn dispersal by small mammals in montane forests of Chiapas, Mexico: 165-176 (in) KAPPELLE, M.

Uso del comportamiento de forrajeo para detectar efectos de borde: un estudio de caso con mamiferos Andinos Colombianos

Most of our effort was expended in either lowland (400-500 m asl) cattle ranching country, or in a forested coffee finca (farm) sited in oak/pine montane forest at 1000-1500 m asl.

Additions to the acridoid grasshopper fauna of El Salvador

Wetland habitats may grade upslope into bio-refuge expressions, but upland wetlands often have linear margins of rapidly steepening transition scarps, where the wetland character changes abruptly to drier steppe or montane forest.

Permanently wetted bio-refuges in the steppe/montane altitudinal zones of the Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho

This concurs with findings by Vallan (2002) in rainforests of Madagascar, Pineda and Halffter (2004) in a montane forest in Mexico, and Hillers et al.

Amphibian community along elevational and habitat disturbance gradients in the Taita Hills, Kenya/Comunidad de anfibios a lo largo de gradientes altitudinales y de perturbacion de habitat en Taita Hills, Kenia

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