cloud forest
Fog-shrouded tropical highlands
A cloud forest is a tropical or subtropical mountain forest characterized by persistent low-level cloud cover.
The constant moisture from fog and mist supports dense vegetation, mosses, ferns, and epiphytes like orchids and bromeliads.
Cloud forests are biodiversity hotspots but increasingly threatened by climate change, which pushes cloud levels higher up mountain slopes.
- epiphytesPlants growing on others
- mossSpore-bearing ground cover
- bromeliadTropical plant, often epiphytic
- rainforestWet tropical woodland ecosystem
- canopyOverhead protective covering
hanging moss · fern · orchid garden · quetzal · misty peaks · condensation · water droplets · Monteverde · understory · old growth · endemic species · mist · carbon sink · hummingbird · howler monkey · tree frog · volcanic soil · dripping
- Chachapoyamountain fortresses, sarcophagi, defensive walls, stone architecture
- Papua Highlandsbride price, traditional dress, face paint, grass skirts, clans
- Venezuelan AndesMerida, Sierra Nevada, Santo Domingo, glacial lakes, glacial valleys
- foresttrees, pine, oak, woods, wood
- forestswoods, pine trees, maple trees, spruce trees, grove
- ecosystemsrainforest, desert, jungle, ocean, lake
cloud forestdesert
To leave behind completely
chaparral · sand dunes · badlands · dry forest · steppe
cloud, forest, cloudy, cloudless, forestry, cloudiness, deforest, overcloud, cloudscape